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Article: Computer revolution. (10 forces reshaping America)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- March 19, 1984
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It's not often that the engine of an economic and social revolution can be held inside the human fist.
Yet that is what has happened in the evolution of the computer, a device born in World War II but perfected in the 1970s to the point where it has dramatically changed business operations and American lifestyles.
The secret: Development of tiny electronic chips with computing power once available only in room-size machines. Now, computers are found in videogames, copying machines, microwave ovens, auto engines and countless other products.
The declining price and expanded memory of today's computers combine to put these devices in the hands ...