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I think you'd do better to equate computers with systems of writing. I'm biased, and I see where you're coming from, but computers are a fundamental shift in how humans understand and interact with the world around them. So if you mean "phonographs" as any kind of recorded sound, then I think you're makin an apt comparison. If you mean the actual object itself, I think you're wrong. But I would also count smartphones, most microwaves, tablets- anything with a processor, basically. Maybe you mean desktops?