Personal Computer

Before cell phones that fit in the palm of your hand and slim laptops that fit snugly into briefcases, computers were like strange, alien vending machines. They had cryptic switches, punch cards, and pages of encoded output. But in 1975, a young engineering wizard named Steve Wozniak had an idea: What if you combined computer circuitry with a regular typewriter keyboard and a video screen?

In the 1970s, while their contemporaries were protesting the computer as a tool of dehumanization and oppression, a motley collection of college dropouts, hippies, and electronics fanatics were engaged in something much more subversive. Obsessed with the idea of getting computer power into their own hands, they launched from their garages a hobbyist movement that grew into an industry, and ultimately a social and technological revolution.

In today's world, where technology permeates every aspect of our lives, it's not surprising that we find ourselves drawing parallels between the workings of our minds and the functionalities of personal computers. As we immerse ourselves in a digital age, it becomes increasingly apparent that our creations reflect our own nature.

Skip the iPhone, the iPod, and the Macintosh. If you want to understand how Apple Inc. became an industry behemoth, look no further than the 1977 Apple II. The Apple II was a versatile piece of hardware, but its most compelling story isn't found in the feat of its engineering, the personalities of Apple's founders, or the way it set the stage for the company's multibillion-dollar future. Instead, historian Laine Nooney shows, what made the Apple II iconic was its software.

Bob wrote this book to demonstrate that one person can have an impact on a company. Not only an impact, but a significant impact - from substantial loss to substantial profit in just three quarters of a year...In this audiobook, Bob shares his profit-improvement skills and tasks with you so you can use them in your company or organization to improve your profits.

The Dark Web and Scams by Ivette Ibarra Smith is an in-depth guide to understanding the dark web and various cyber scams, aiming to improve personal cybersecurity. The book covers several topics, starting with an exploration of the dark web—demystifying its role as both a space for illegal activities and a haven for privacy-focused individuals such as journalists and whistleblowers.

In The Attention Trap, Boris Kriger traces the quiet catastrophe unfolding behind every screen: the transformation of human attention from an intimate, irreplaceable faculty into the most fiercely contested commodity on Earth. Algorithms bid for your gaze. Platforms auction your focus. Love letters vanish between memes, and wars disappear behind recipe videos. Meanwhile, small businesses are crushed not by competition but by invisibility, and trust between people erodes as every word begins to feel like a sales pitch.

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If you access the web from a smartphone, tablet, or computer, this audiobook will add to your knowledge about social network risks, online trust and privacy, content oversharing, and smartphone addiction. Written in plain English (not geek-speak), Cyber Crisis also offers easy-to-follow steps you can take to improve your personal cyber security. You will learn at least one new thing you can do that will lower your risk of being hacked or harmed online.