The world is today living in a digital era – with almost everything happening within digital technology – from online businesses, and e-learning to banking on your mobile phone. Today, nearly 7 billion people utilize digital technology, but surprisingly only one per cent of them understand it. Allow me to take you through the history and evolution of digital technology that I am sure at the end of it, you will be a smarter user. The first digital algorithm was created in 1843 by Ada Lovelace, a British Mathematician who realized computers could be more than big calculators. 45 years later, which is in 1888, Herman Hollerith invented the tabulating machine to help process data for the 1890 U.S. Census. It was an electromechanical machine that could summarize information stored on punched cards. Hollerith then starts a company that later becomes IBM. In 1936, Alan Turing conceives of the Logical Computing Machine. The Turing machine was a mathematical model of the modern comput...