As an IT industry practitioner and a graduate instructor in computer science, so let me answer this question.

First of all, the computer after many years of development, in the concept of continuous development and updating, functional boundaries are also expanding, based on the computer has built a huge technical system and ecosystem, it can be said that the current computer for the whole society has brought a lot of changes, and the future changes may be even more worthy of expectation.

The development of computers has gone through a number of stages, different stages have different characteristics, but also brought different changes to society, can be briefly summarized as the following four stages:

The first stage: the era of information technology. The first change brought by the computer is the information age, the important feature of the information age is the digitization of traditional resources, using the computer's powerful digital management capabilities, the computer gradually began to penetrate into various industry sectors, especially in the fields of finance, communications, scientific research, education and so on. Typical technologies in this period include operating systems and database technology, including, of course, a series of ERP systems.

The second stage: the Internet era. The Internet era redefined the computer, through the Internet can be stored in various regions of the digital resources to achieve integration, thus breaking through the various barriers to information communication, through the Internet has also changed the whole society's communication methods and business models. With the development of mobile Internet, the Internet's ability to integrate resources has been further strengthened, the future of all kinds of resources will gradually networked.

The third stage: the era of big data. The big data era redefined data, big data for the data to give value, while opening up a huge new field of value, the future value of the field of big data will bring a new round of change to the whole society. Currently big data technology is in the early stages of application, the future development opportunities in the field of big data will be very large.

The fourth stage: the era of artificial intelligence. With the development of big data, the Internet of Things and cloud computing, artificial intelligence will once again redefine the computer, a large number of devices will have the ability to communicate data and decision-making capabilities, the boundaries of traditional computers will gradually be blurred, it can be said that the era of artificial intelligence will be the era of the interconnection of all things, all things computing.

I have been engaged in the Internet industry for many years, and now I am also taking graduate students majoring in computer science, and my main research direction is focused on the field of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence, and I will write some articles on Internet technology one after another, and friends who are interested in it can pay attention to me, and I believe that they will definitely get something out of it.

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