A Question of Technology: What's So Super about Supercomputers?

Clive Gifford is the author of more than 150 children's books including Eye Benders, winner of the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize, Royal Society-nominated Out of This World and Cool Technology which won the School Library Association Information Book Award. His book, The Colours of History, won the Blue Peter Book Awards' Best Book With Facts. He has travelled through 70 countries, run a computer games company and taken part in all manner of sports from parachuting and gliding to Ultimate Frisbee. Clive's official website can be found at www.clivegifford.co.uk

1: What is a computer?
2: What did the first computer look like?
3: Who was the first coder?
4: Why were early computers so BIG?
5: Why make microchips so tiny?
6: Where does all my data go?
7: Why do computers take soooo long to start?
8: How does what I type reach the screen?
9: How do computer games know the score?
10: What’s the difference between a bug and a virus?
11: Could a laser printer destroy the world?
12: What’s so super about supercomputers?
13: Quick-fire questions
14: Glossary / Further reading
15: Index