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- Season 1 Early Computing
- Season 1 Electronic Computing
- Season 1 Boolean Logic & Logic Gates
- Season 1 Representing Numbers and Letters with Binary
- Season 1 How Computers Calculate - the ALU
- Season 1 Registers and RAM
- Season 1 The Central Processing Unit (CPU)
- Season 1 Instructions & Programs
- Season 1 Advanced CPU Designs
- Season 1 Early Programming
- Season 1 The First Programming Languages
- Season 1 Programming Basics: Statements & Functions
- Season 1 Intro to Algorithms
- Season 1 Data Structures
- Season 1 Alan Turing
- Season 1 Software Engineering
- Season 1 Integrated Circuits & Moore’s Law
- Season 1 Operating Systems
- Season 1 Memory & Storage
- Season 1 Files & File Systems
- Season 1 Compression
- Season 1 Keyboards & Command Line Interfaces
- Season 1 Screens & 2D Graphics
- Season 1 The Cold War and Consumerism
- Season 1 The Personal Computer Revolution
- Season 1 Graphical User Interfaces
- Season 1 3D Graphics
- Season 1 Computer Networks
- Season 1 The Internet
- Season 1 The World Wide Web
- Season 1 Cybersecurity
- Season 1 Hackers & Cyber Attacks
- Season 1 Cryptography
- Season 1 Machine Learning & A.I.
- Season 1 Computer Vision
- Season 1 Natural Language Processing
- Season 1 Robots
- Season 1 Psychology of Computing
- Season 1 Educational Technology
- Season 1 The Future of Computing
Crash Course Computer Science - Season 1 Episode 24 The Cold War and Consumerism
0.00 12 minutes Today we’re going to step back from hardware and software, and take a closer look at how the backdrop of the cold war and space race and the rise of consumerism and globalization brought us from huge, expensive codebreaking machines in the 1940s to affordable handhelds and personal computers in the 1970s. This is an era that saw huge government funded projects - like the race to the moon. And afterward, a shift towards the individual consumer, commoditization of components, and the rise of the Japanese electronics industry.
