Where do you see similarities and contradictions in how our readings define and discuss computers?

What are computers?

Your original forum post should have three parts:

1) rhetorical summaries for each reading;

2) a response that encompasses all readings; and

3) a reflection that uses textual references from all course readings to answer the question below:

Where do you see similarities and contradictions in how our readings define and discuss computers? What are the implications of these similarities and differences?