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For general public, the meaning of "computer" is "tool of representation and communication". "Computer" is an extension of "pencil and paper" and "telephone".
To position "computer" as "computing machine" is almost equivalent to say that one should not use it. In fact, those computers brought into schools as "computing machines" are covered with dust in silent computer-rooms. Since "computer" is "tool of representation and communication", it cannot be stand-alone, that is, disconnected to communication-network. Stand-alone computers are similar to telephones disconnected to telephone-circuits. |
