[ExI] Did Hugo de Garis leave the field?

[Stefano Vaj]

On 6 May 2011 07:42, Kelly Anderson <kellycoinguy at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2011/5/4 Stefano Vaj <stefano.vaj at gmail.com>:
> > On 2 May 2011 11:11, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
> >> On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 01:19:05AM -0600, Kelly Anderson wrote:
> >> > Since 1971? So the personal computer,
> >>
> >> The microcomputer has been around since 1970 (the IC is even
> >> earlier), and it has no fundamental architectural differences
> >> from the mini, nor the mini from the mainframe.
>
> I stand by personal computing as a paradigm shift. It's not about the
> technology, but the access, and the uses they have been put to.
>

Be it as it may, we are quickly going to end up with much fewer things where
"It's not about the technology, but the access" will be applicable unless we
become again able to sustain a rate of "fundamental" innovation similar to
that 1850-1950, or perhaps 1870-1970 to be optimist.


> By 1970, we had finished integrating all of the technology from the
> Roswell crash into our society. There won't be another paradigm shift
> until there is another crash. It's so simple, I am surprised that I
> would be the first to bring it up.
>

Indeed. Even though Roswell is in the US, and theoretical innovation prior
to 1970 took place to a large extent in Europe... :-)

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Stefano Vaj
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