Yes, you read correctly: we're going to learn one of the best ways to steal ideas. Why? Because it's important. But isn't stealing wrong? Not really. Enough of this boring prologue, on to the heroic battle scenes and titillating adventures.
Computers began their lives, in essence, as a massive collection of logic gates constructed with whatever materials were possible. The concept of automated machines doing computations isn't recent, by any means. There were, however, limits to what was able to be envisioned due to what was too impossible to even be considered impossible (yes, I said that correctly).
