I haven’t read it, but just by the title it was probably talking about an incredible machine that was new to people.
Interntors present an interesting kind of people who think in peculiar ways sometimes. This ability allows them to view certain situations in ways in which other people cannot. Because of this, they can think of new ways of how such situations can be tackled. This is how inventions are born. A person with an inventive mind sees a new situation where he thinks of a new solution how he could improve this situation with his invention.
This process is continued continuously with new generations of inventors seeing and coming back to old situations over and over again, inventing new things along the way.
A computer virus is a malicious software program loaded onto a user's computer without the user's knowledge and performs malicious actions. It can self-replicate, inserting itself onto other programs or files, infecting them in the process.
