Computers (Civ6)

Computers is an Atomic Era technology in Civilization VI. It can be hurried by adopting a government with 8 policy slots. 
== Strategy ==
The next paradigm-shifting invention which will define post-modern times (sigh) is a machine which makes calculations...or rather, the infinite ways clever people find to use such a machine.
It is indeed difficult to imagine the modern world without computers. They gradually find their way into every facet of human activity: industry, communications, home appliances, and arms, to name a few. They even help your espionage, and the spread of your !
In Rise and Fall, discovering Computers unlocks the Drone, a support unit that upgrades from the Observation Balloon. In Gathering Storm, it increases by only 25% instead of 100% and also unlocks the Flood Barrier, a City Center building which protects coastal lowland tiles from flooding as sea levels rise.
Notably, the for Computers can be triggered without a Tier 3 government. Playing as Greece, Frederick Barbarossa, or Kublai Khan and building Alhambra, Big Ben, the Forbidden City, or the Potala Palace will add additional policy slots to one's government, potentially allowing players with a Tier 2 government to trigger the . Joining the Owls of Minerva and playing as Georgia (with the Secret Societies and Dramatic Ages game modes enabled, respectively) allow even more possibilities for earning additional policy card slots.
== Civilopedia entry ==
== Trivia ==
* The for Computers can be obtained in no fewer than six ways: adopting a government with eight policy slots, obtaining it with espionage, or activating Ada Lovelace, Alan Turing, Alfred Nobel, or Erwin Schrödinger. This is the most ways to obtain any tech or civic boost in the game.
== See also ==
* Computers in other games