History Of Computer Ethics

If you never knew what computer ethics was all about, here are a few inputs to educate you on what they are. Computer ethics is a part of philosophy which analysis the nature and the social impact of the technology of computers along with the standards of conducts that are required to make the right use of computers. In short it is all about how to make use of computers in the right way.

History Personal Computer

In the year 1968, a demonstration given by SRI researcher Douglas Englebert could be called the biggest of all demos so far. The demo gave a fore-sight of how working lifestyles would be in the 21st century with e-mails, word processing, hypertext, the mouse and video conferencing. This particular demonstration needed a lot of assistance from the support staff and also a mainframe computer that had the facility of time-sharing. It was found that all of this was way too expensive for businesses that operated individually in those days.