The Brain from Laurence Manning's novel The Man Who Awoke (1933).Breuer's short story 'Mechanocracy' (1932). The Brain from Lionel Britton’s Brain: A Play of the Whole Earth (1930).Forster's short story ' The Machine Stops' (1909) This is considered to be the first description of a fictional device that in any way resembles a computer. The Engine, a kind of mechanical information generator featured in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
Robots and other fictional computers that are described as existing in a mobile or humanlike form are discussed in a separate list of fictional robots and androids. The work may be about the computer, or the computer may be an important element of the story. This is a list of computers that have appeared in notable works of fiction. Fictional computers may be referred to with a made-up manufacturer's brand name and model number or a nickname. Fictional computers may be depicted as considerably more sophisticated than anything yet devised in the real world. A fictional computer from the Tardis in the Doctor Who television series.Ĭomputers have often been used as fictional objects in literature, movies and in other forms of media. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
