John Atanasoff - The Electronic Prometheus

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John Atanasoff is the forerunner of the information society as the inventor of electronic digital computing because it laid the beginning of electronic information processing.

We connect the name of Lohn Atanasoff mainly with the first electronic digital computer, calling him the father of the computer. That is completely deserved but is rather narrow because it includes only a fraction of the fact about his exceptional technological breakthrough.

We have called John Atanasoff the Electronic Prometheus because he has handed mankind electronics as a means of processing of information. That process is not under his control any more and can be used to do good and evil just as fire, which according to the legend Prometheus gave to people.