Dictation When Charles Babbage, a professor of mathematics of Cambridge University invented the first calculating machine in 1812, he could hardly have imagined the situation we find ourselves in today. Nearly everything we do in the modern world is helped or even controlled, by computers, the complicated descendents of this simple machine. Computers are being used more and more extensively in the world today, for the simple reason that they are far more efficient than human beings. IN fact, computers can do many of the things we do, but faster and better. They can pay wages, reserve seats on planes control machines in factories work out tomorrow's weather and even play chess, write poetry, or compose muSic Computers display tremendous functions in all walks of life, such as education, banking, industry, medicine, military affairs, etcDictation  When Charles Babbage, a professor of mathematics of Cambridge University, invented the first calculating machine in 1812, he could hardly have imagined the situation we find ourselves in today. Nearly everything we do in the modern world is helped, or even controlled, by computers, the complicated descendents of this simple machine. Computers are being used more and more extensively in the world today, for the simple reason that they are far more efficient than human beings. IN fact, computers can do many of the things we do, but faster and better. They can pay wages, reserve seats on planes, control machines in factories, work out tomorrow’s weather, and even play chess, write poetry, or compose music. Computers display tremendous functions in all walks of life, such as education, banking, industry, medicine, military affairs, etc