The rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, the rise of Apple, I think are proof that there is a place for computer science as something that solves problems that people face every day. Eric Schmidt (Google's CEO from 2001 to 2011; prior to that he had stints as CEO of Novell and chief technology officer at Sun Microsystems.)
There is this brilliant website mentioned during today's episode :https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/computers/ where it had beautifully illustrated the history of computers.
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