Computer

A Computer is a tangible device using information technology to manipulate data and make calculations.

• Computers are commonly known as Processors throughout much of Charted Space.
• It is an important item of Ship Equipment.

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Please see the following AAB Library Data articles for more information:

• I: Information Science / Information Technology (Info-)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Data Repository
  • Computer
  • Computer Software
  • Computronium
  • Machine Life
  • Positronic Brain
  • Skillset
  • Wafertech

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• C: Cognitive Science / Cybertechnology (Cogno-)
  • Android
  • Augment
  • Cybernetics
  • Cyborg
  • Pseudobiological Robot
  • Robot
  • Total-Integration Process
  • Wafertech

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• E: Education in Charted Space
  • Educational Technologies
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Computers
    • Computer Software
    • Cyberware
    • Skillsets
    • Wafers
  • Institutions of Learning
    • Data Repository
    • Educational Institutes
    • Psionics Institutes

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Description (Specifications)

Computers are rated according to a vast variety of characteristics and capabilities, but general quality paradigms have been established.

Computer Types

Computer:

1. Computer Implant
2. Control Console
3. Control Panel
4. Fiber Optic Computer
5. Fire Control Computer
6. Hand Computer
7. House Brain
8. Map Box
9. Neural Net
10. Ship's Computer
11. Workstation

Brains, Minds & Personalities

Very advanced computers begin to develop autonomous programming and are referred to with other specialized terms:

Brains, Minds & Personalities
Term	Remarks
Brain
Mind
Personality

History & Background (Dossier)

Computers are a foundational technology underlying many later developments including robots, starships, artificial intelligence, and much, much more.

The development of Information Technology (IT) and particularly the key device of IT, the computer is a key advancement of any technological civilization.

• Computer technology greatly assists in the advancement of knowledge. Scientists used it to better store, collate, and push out the boundaries of scientific knowledge. Linguists use it to catalogue known languages and improve universal translators. Bureaucrats use it to aid in process of governance, massively increasing efficiency.
• Nearly every tech level of advancement leads to an exponential increase in pure research capability and a greatly sped up doubling of existing knowledge.
• Computers and other forms of data processing and storage expand the extilligence of a civilization, which is to say its ability to pass on learning from one generation to the next.

Image Repository

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Technological Overview of Computers

Epochal Technological Development: Information Technology is at its earliest conceptual state and slowly grows into mechanical calculative devices to early electronics to the first true computers and beyond.

Computer Autonomy:

• Automatons (TL:1-6)
• Low Autonomous Robots (TL:1-9)
• Autonomous Robots (TL:10-15)
• High Autonomous Robots (TL:13-18)
• Self-Aware Robots (TL:19-27)
• Machine Life (TL:28-33)

Information Age Societies

TL:1-9:

• Digital Networks
• High scarcity
• Prototype Nanotech
• Calculative ("Calculating machines")
• Automatons
• Low Autonomous Robots

TL:4-6:
No information yet available.

TL:7-9:
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Bright Age Societies

TL:10-18:

• Intelligent Networks
• Low Scarcity
• Weak nanotech
• Synaptic processors
• Positronic brains
• Cognitive ("Thinking machines")
• High Autonomous Robots

TL:10-12:
No information yet available.

TL:13-15:
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TL:16-18:
No information yet available.

Brilliant Age Societies

TL:19-27:

• Delegative Rule (AI)
• Post-Scarcity
• Strong nanotech
• Emotive ("Dreaming or Feeling machines")
• Self-Aware Robots

TL:19-21:
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References & Contributors (Sources)

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• Periodical: Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society 01 in Article: "Computer Programming" by: Marc Miller
• Periodical: Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society 24 in Article: "Using your Model/1bis" by: Marc Miller
• Periodical: Challenge 25 in Article: "Using Your Model/2 bis" by: Marc Miller
• Periodical: Stellar Reaches 08 in Article: "Using Your Model 2 Bis, Revisited. Part 1" by: Joshua Bell
• Periodical: Stellar Reaches 10 in Article: "Using Your Model 2 Bis, Revisited. Part 2" by: Joshua Bell
• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science