From the course: Help Desk Handbook for End Users: PC Basics, Hardware, Operating Systems, and Applications
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Networks of computing devices
From the course: Help Desk Handbook for End Users: PC Basics, Hardware, Operating Systems, and Applications
Networks of computing devices
- Hi, Scott Jernigan here. I know you're already watching episodes about becoming computer literate, which is pretty nerdy, but I'm going to take a moment here to really turn the nerd nozzle full blast. If someone comes up to you after watching this video and demands your lunch money and shoves you into a locker, I'm sorry. In the computer game Planescape: Torment, there's an enemy called a cranium rat. Individually, these are just regular rats, easily squashed and of no threat. When a crowd of them gathers together, however, they start getting exponentially smarter and more powerful, with each additional cranium rat making every other rat massively more dangerous. Eventually they become a super powerful being called the Many-as-One, and they pose a huge threat to the game's hero. Computers work the same way. After the wheel and the pulley, computers are maybe the most massively useful and versatile machines humanity has ever created. They have completely changed the way we live our…
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