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We began the 2oth century with the infancy of airplanes, automobiles, and radio, when
those inventions dazzled us with their novelty and wonder.
We end the 2oth century with spaceships, computers, cell phones, and the wireless
Internet all being technologies we can take for granted."
Included in that century, Peter Goldmark invents modern color television system. Karl
Pabst invents the jeep. Konrad Zuse's Z3, the first computer controlled by software.
And tragically the inventions took place in that same century that could exterminate all
of humanity, the Atom and Hydrogen Bombs, along with the GPS guided missiles that
could destroy the nations of this world-and would if Jesus Christ were to permit it.
The Beginning of the Knowledge Explosion
And once again- the amazing thing is the computerized age did not begin to come into
its own until after World War II in
1945,
approximately
70
years ago. For older people to
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