2006-11-22 22:18:21 · 6 answers · asked by NAFIS B 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
"Influence"? They won't really influence science. Help would be a better description. It takes a lot less time now to do many things by using the right tool. The tool being a computer. Things can be designed and crafted by use of a computer instead of drafting table, pencils and straight edges. Of course, complex calculations enable many things to undergo a quality/feasibility check in "virtual reality" without building parts for a prototype only to find out a part was not labeled properly on hand drawn blueprints.
Plus, it's so much nicer using a computer than it is to use a slide rule. Computers [with the right software] handle the higher maths like calc a bit more effortlessly.
2006-11-22 23:22:54 · answer #1 · answered by quntmphys238 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First they will take away management jobs like accounting, hiring and firing, sorting and allocation of tenders, diagnostic work, medical examinations, looking through microscopes. Stuff like that. Then they will take over government, close down the universities, change the school circulum to include nonsense subjects, then they will get rid of PC computers and make people do menial tasks, send all the dumbed down humans to the pacific islands to laze around thinking they are having a holiday, but will secretly be eliminating them until ...
But then some people think this has already happened - I mean, didn't computers run the elections in the USA? So did the voters decide the outcome or .... ???
2006-11-23 07:19:33 · answer #2 · answered by Bad bus driving wolf 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Computers can help younger people to LEARN difficult scientific things more quickly and clearly. I have a friend studying astrophysics in general, and some steller evolution mechanisms described by differential equations in particular. When I was at university, the equation was just a line of horrible algebra, and its solution was another line of horrible algebra. It didn't mean a thing to me. Now my friend's computer can construct a 3D model of the solution, and he can pan his view around it just by sliding his mouse, and SEE what that horrible algebra is actually equivalent to in reality. Before computers, only someone with a particular mathematical kind of insight could form a picture of it like that; but now, the computer pictures it for anybody to see.
If students can learn more difficult scientific concepts earlier in their career, they have the potential to make more new discoveries during it.
2006-11-23 10:30:00 · answer #3 · answered by bh8153 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There would be prorammes that would make scientist figure out things more easily. Maybe there could be a programm that can show every stars and metter in the UNIVERSE!
2006-11-23 06:59:00 · answer #4 · answered by g1r2a3c4e5_korea 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They already have done so. Just think back 20 yrs. In the future, think 20 yrs ahead....we will be able to do exactly what we think we can't in our present "time" that is if we do not destroy our species in the process!
2006-11-23 06:36:49 · answer #5 · answered by cowboybabeeup 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You might want to read "A New Kind of Science" by S. Wolfram
2006-11-23 06:26:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋