Into the digital era.

The dawn of the digital age began in World War Two with the invention of secret computers to break German codes. More generally, the war inspired huge advances in electronics on both sides of the Atlantic. By the end of the 1940s, it was clear that the future belonged to computers.
It was the telecommunications industry that had provided the bulk of the components and expertise from which the first computers were assembled.
In the end, the favour was returned because it was in telecommunications that the new computers were able to make their biggest early impacts.