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Revision as of 21:37, 16 January 2019

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

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

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 A Brain is a sophisticated Bright Age Information Technology computer without a significant personality. [1]
  • Example/s: Ship's Computer, Traffic Net Controller, Parallel Research Network, etc.
Mind A Brain is a sophisticated Bright Age Information Technology computer with a significant personality. [2]
  • Example/s: City Mind, Ship Mind, etc.
Personality A Personality is a Bright to Brilliant Age feature of sophisticated computers capable of high levels of autonomous thought and independent decision-making. [3]
  • Example/s: Ship Mind, Sophontoid Robot, etc.

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.

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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:

Information Age Societies

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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:
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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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  1. ↑ Marc Miller. "Computers, Consoles, and Controllers." T5 Core Rules (2013): 515-519.
  2. ↑ Information provided to the library by Maksim-Smelchak
  3. ↑ Marc Miller. "Personalities and Brains." T5 Core Rules (2013): 522-525.
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