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NASA's Star-Trek-like Main Ship Computer ... They busily are creating a set of computer 'tools' that possibly will evolve into a main computer system much like that of the fictional starship Enterprise of television's 'Star Trek' series....

How To Make The Most Of Your Computer Hardware ... Your computer is simply a tool that, given the correct instructions and data, will make your day to day life easier and more enjoyable... Although most computers look similar, there are variations between models, so always check instructions in the computer manual to make sure you're using your computer correctly...

Computer Hardwares ... Most of the personal computer system use same hardware but laptops and notebook computers have different hardware... The hardware used in today’s computer is CD or DVD drive, monitor, system unit (consist of cup and other devices), mouse, keyboard, speaker and hard disk, these devices are also called peripheral devices....

Using The GPS System For Accurate Computer Time ... Many computer networks utilise the GPS clock as an accurate timing reference for computer synchronisation...

Coolest Technology For Your Car: A Geek Guide ... GPS, OnStar and navigation Systems Hate being lost? GPS is the answer. The latest in-car navigation systems feature voice recognition and touchscreen technology...

The computer takes up where psychoanalysis left off. It takes the ideas of a decentered self and makes it more concrete by modeling mind as a multiprocessing machine.
—Sherry Turkle (b. 1948)

The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower.
—Robert M. Pirsig (b. 1928)

computers “remember” things in the form of discrete entries: the input of quantities, graphics, words, etc. Each item is separable, perhaps designated by a unique address or file name, and all of it subject to total recall. Unless the machine malfunctions, it can regurgitate everything it has stored exactly as it was entered, whether a single number or a lengthy document. This is what we expect of the machine. Human memory, on the other hand, is the invisible psychic adhesive that holds our identity together from moment to moment. This makes it a radically different phenomenon from computer memory. For one thing, it is fluid rather than granular, more like a wave than a particle. Like a wave, it spreads through the mind, puddling up here and there in odd personal associations that may be of the most inexplicable kind. It flows not only through the mind, but through the emotions, the senses, the body. We remember things as no computer can—in our muscles and reflexes: how to swim, play an instrument, use a tool.
—Theodore Roszak (b. 1933)