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The digitization has enormly developed itself the past few years. The following article was placed on 6th February 2010 in the newspaper 'Eindhovens Dagblad'. Please notice that I translated the Dutch article into English.

Eindhoven - the AIVD will be surprised, the Russians are probably not amused. Consequently, the offer of the exposition 'secret code' will not lie. The Enigma is the most famous cipher of the world. It looks like a strange typewriter with lights. When the cover opens, you can smell the past. The image of a German who was using the machine during the second worldwar for keeping the military communication as a secret, forces itself. In that war, the race between developers of increasingly complex ciphers and professional code crackers decided a custom or defeat. Especially the code crackers of Bletchley Park in London wrote history when they were able to decipher the German Enigma-code. "The need to encipher finally led to the invention of the computer" said Paul Reuvers of the Crypto Museum, co-organizer of the exposition on the TU/e.

What we should notice here, is that the invention of the computer has a military background. Because of the wars, new devices had to be created. Is it actually true that when there were less wars, the digitization was not as far as it now is? This is a discussion worth.

Reference: Eindhovens Dagblad, 06-02-10