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 depicted as considerably more sophisticated than anything yet devised in the real world. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.Ĭomputers have often been used as fictional objects in literature, movies and in other forms of media. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
