The word computer is a misleading name 1 the ubiquitous machine that sits on our desks. If we go 2 to the Victorian period, or even the World War II era, the word meant an occupation, defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as “one who computes; a calculator, reckoner; specifically a person employed to make calculations in an observatory, in surveying, etc”. In 3, although a modern computer can work with numbers, 4 main use is for storing and manipulating information, 5 is, for doing the kinds of jobs performed by a clerk–defined in the Oxford English Dictionary 6 “one employed in a subordinate position in a public or private office, shop, warehouse, etc., to make written entries, 7 accounts, make fair copies of documents, do the mechanical work of correspondence and similar ‘clerkly’ work.” The electronic computer 8 be said to combine the roles of the human-computer and the human clerk.