by Nicholas Nikolov

Created on: January 22, 2009   Last Updated: May 17, 2011

Billions of people worldwide use the computer or computer based functioning devices to begin their morning: from pressing the off or snooze button on the alarm clock to turning on the television.

The computer seems to have had the greatest impact on humanity as a whole. In actuality, the computer itself has drastically altered the way people live their lives and how businesses operate their companies in today's technologically advanced society.

What a huge relief it is for any person to be able to contact family and friends, who may live miles away through e-mails or having the well-situated option in having instant messaging conversations; instead of using the telephone or sending letters. And while staying on the topic of communication, the Internet has many uses of chat rooms or online dating services to meet new people.

Everybody loves music, so, if it wasn't for the Net, everyone would still be spending money on entire albums of rock bands, boy bands, rap stars or groups, and individual singers. The problem with that is if a person doesn't like all the songs, he or she has to skip over the songs on the album. Whereas, thanks to the Internet, its peer-to-peer sharing programs like Lime Wire, allow the user to find the particular favourite single track from any genre of music they prefer.

As for the corporate and business end of civilization, the computer, in some form or another is the nucleus behind

Modern-technology has marvellously contributed so much in our present-day hi-tech innovations, making leeway for the world-scientists apparitions of Sci-fi like societies in progressing into the future to further develop our current remarkable technological wonders. A perfect example of this is in Japan; where unprecedented scientific phenomenon that stems from their robotics industry has assembled humanlike robots that live amongst the Japanese.

Surprisingly, not a single invention throughout humankind's history has affected the entire world in such an astronomical manner like the computer, which has been able to do so since its ancestral prototype, the Atanasoff Berry Computer.

John Vincent Atanasoff was born October 4 1903 in Hamilton, New York City. The American-born Bulgarian was a pioneer in his own right within the field of digital electronic computing by ushering in a new era, the age of the computer.

During his illustrious career as a mathematical physicist, inventor, entrepreneur, and educator, the Boyadjik-native, which is a small town in the region

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