Magazine "Youth and Technology" №1

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**Magazine "Youth and Technology" №1** (Russian: *Журнал «Юношество и техника» № 1*) is a text document in *ATOM RPG*, skill book.

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"Youths and Engineering"

01.01.1985

Cover story:

"Computers are the future of the mankind!"

A computer. This wonderous word isn't common for many USSR citizens. But in the future this situation will change! Computers ARE the future. Computers and Communism, that is… Thus said Alexey Podgorny, the head engineer at the D. V. Buryatov's Calculating Machine Manufactoring Factory.

What kind of a device is a computer? Comrade Podgorny explained it this way: "It's a machine or a system that can complete an interchangeable set of tasks. Mostly these tasks involve calculation or data manipulation. But input-output operations are also possible."

We listen with awe, not daring to faulter the speech of this modern day Copernicus. But he notices that we are too quiet, and gives out a fatherly laugh: "Too many hard words for you?".

"Yes, a bit…" We answer, while blushing. "Could you give a more simple definition?"

"Sure! Now, imagine a calculator. And imagine that it no longer just lets you make number calculations. It also lets you write, draw, create music! Say, you'd like to write a letter to your grandma who lives on a state farm. Nothing is more simple! You push the button which allows you to type on a keyboard, and input your letter into the computer! When finished, with just a press of a button you would print out what you wrote, and get your letter on paper! And it's not just a high-tech typewriter! On a computer, you can correct any spelling errors on the go!

Then we ask: "And if we imagine that grandma also has one of these computers, can we send her device a letter from our device without printing it on paper?"

The engineer nods: "Sure you can. Even while we speak, there are certain scientists working on a certain "web" of computers that will connect them all. In the West such a web already has been invented. Now our researchers want to understand and improve it."

The youngest of our groop lifts his hand, and asks a funny question, while looking very shy: "And can the computer be used to play some kind of games..?"

Comrade Podgorny looks at the boy strictly (but still smiling with his eyes) and wags his finger, saying: "A computer is too important of a device. It is designed to help us with communication, creativity and work. It will entertain our minds, not give us low, childish entertament! And even if it wasn't so… I can't imagine a game made on a computer. How boring it would probably be!"

We all nod in agreement, and point our fingers at the young boy who asked the silly question. We're all young, but we're not infants.

Out talk with the engineer went on for hours. He shared his thoughts on the future of humanity, which seemed like something out of science fiction! But it wasn't some young dreamer talking to us, but an experienced, serious man! He talked, and pictures of an amazing future stood before our eyes:

A sibirian Evenk types a story about our Motherland's victories on his computer.

A forest-dwelling Samoyed types a letter to his comrades in Cuba.

A worker from Moscow reads the latest news.

And in the eyes of all of these people, is reflected the glimmering light of the Future - a CRT screen of a Computer!