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And that is the same physics, medicine, nature, space, time, brain, life, the universe.

Hello, this week we use them every day at work, at home, to chat to our friends or to listen to music

but how do computers actually work what's inside them and what will the computers of tomorrow look like?

We'll be navigating through the past, present and future of computing

and lifting the lid literally on a PC to peek inside and see how it works. I'm Tim Revel.

I'm Chris Smith and this is The Naked Scientists.

The Naked Scientists podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk. Okay.

Let's introduce our guests who are going to guide us through the bits and bites that are buzzing around inside a modern computer.

Jeffrey Sammond is a research software engineer in Cambridge University's IT service and

you look after a supercomputer, Jeffrey, what is one of those?

Yes, a modern supercomputer is pretty much just a collection of normal computers

all connected together.

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