This post is an excerpt from This is a Computer.
Everyone knows what a computer is. It's. Well. You. Come on. Let's see. OK. An iPad. That's a computer. And. So, there's laptops. You get the idea. Electricity! That's it. Definitely. And plastic.
But before electricity and before plastic humans still had the drive to create devices to help them think, to do some of the heavy lifting. It's a very old impulse. So we rummaged around a bit and found a few of the tools without whose development, your most sophisticated tool for thinking would be your own fingers.
