computer revolution

collocation in English

meaningsofcomputerandrevolution

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computer
noun[C or U]
uk
/kəmˈpjuː.tər/us
/kəmˈpjuː.t̬ɚ/
an electronic machine that is used for storing, organizing, and finding words, numbers, and pictures, for doing calculations, and for controlling ...
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revolution
noun
uk
/ˌrev.əˈluː.ʃən/us
/ˌrev.əˈluː.ʃən/
a change in the way a country is governed, usually to a different political system and often using violence ...
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(Definition ofcomputerandrevolutionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Perhaps, in the midst of acomputerrevolution, it was felt that it had lost something of its relevance.
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For many years, since the beginning of the so-calledcomputerrevolution, the government and corporate institutions have attempted to computerise their activities.
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Even before the personalcomputerrevolution, linguists attempting to characterize the difference between speech and writing found themselves qualifying each category with terms like 'paradigmatic' or 'typical'.
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The personalcomputerrevolutionshould be the model for the development of broadband applications.
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I have been in thecomputerrevolutionfrom the days before there were any computers.
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Future historians will not call it thecomputerrevolutionbut the digital revolution.
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We do not know where thecomputerrevolutionwill take us.
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The same will be true of the microprocessor revolution as was true of thecomputerrevolution.
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It is made worse by the deferred effect of thecomputerrevolution.
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We have called what is happening thecomputerrevolutionand many other names.
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Thecomputerrevolutionwill have far more influence on our society than did the industrial revolution.
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A generation ago, as thecomputerrevolutioncame through, it seemed all to be running the way of the bigger and bigger organisation.
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It is possible to read information into a computer and to get information back through the application of electronic techniques in thecomputerrevolution.
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They are a begining of something which may, and perhaps should, become a feature of the new world which thecomputerrevolutionis now producing.
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That is the unique contribution of thecomputerrevolution; we can store much more information and access it accurately and faithfully almost instantaneously.
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Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personalcomputerrevolution.
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The personalcomputerrevolutionhas a great impact on this development.
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More than any other person, he created the personal computing component of thecomputerrevolution.
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It was local newspapers rather than the nationals which were leading thecomputerrevolutionin the industry.
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Since thecomputerrevolutionof the 1970s, we are witnessing the dematerialization of securities traded on the stock exchange.
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Thecomputerrevolutionhas implications for the future of statistics with new emphasis on experimental and empirical statistics.
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The open exchange of ideas that went on at its biweekly meetings, and the club newsletter, launched the personalcomputerrevolution.
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In the late 1980s, thecomputerrevolutionwas not only responsible for corporate downsizing, but also increased the demand of employee output.
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Thecomputerrevolution, and knowledge revolution refer to specific revolutionary transitions, rather than the end state towards which we are evolving.
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This book was published right as the homecomputerrevolutionwas really starting, and the game was easily ported to most of the platforms being released.
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