Computers and the Military

When the first computer was built some decades ago, it was capable of doing simple calculations and other basic tasks. The engineers had no idea what the future would bring within the world of computers. Their invention was the first step in a major professional and personal transformation in the industrialized world. Computers invaded in the following decades the lives of most people in various worksaving machines and in the middle of the Eighties also …

…Though the engineers of the first computer never anticipated the rapid development of their invention, they might have gotten second thoughts about going through with their project if they knew about the destructive ability of the Nth generation computers. Winston Churchill's famous words about blood, sweat and tears being the only way to survive the Second World War are no longer true. The only way to win a war is to push the right button.