<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif">On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 1:05 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_930934786251798672WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">I have these:</span></p><div><div><p class="gmail-m_930934786251798672MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0.75in"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><u></u><span>1.<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">           </span></span><u></u>Commercially viable computers, which I will kinda arbitrarily assign to Apple computer, about 1977.</font></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div>You mean commercially viable personal computers? Because mainframes and minis were already well established by then. Commodore and others helped pave the way for Apple.</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_930934786251798672WordSection1"><div><div><p class="gmail-m_930934786251798672MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0.75in"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></font></p><p class="gmail-m_930934786251798672MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0.75in"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><u></u><span>2.<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">         </span></span><u></u>HTML, which enabled the modern internet as we know it with websites and links and all the cool stuff on there, about 1993</font></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div>That's bass ackwards: the Internet paved the way for HTML and the WWW. And the smart phone.<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_930934786251798672WordSection1"><div><div><p class="gmail-m_930934786251798672MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0.75in"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></font></p><p class="gmail-m_930934786251798672MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0.75in"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><u></u><span>3.<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">         </span></span><u></u>Cell phone technology, which reached inflection point around 2000 or so.</font></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div> My list would include:<br></div><div><br></div><div>  personal computers</div><div>  free software (GNU, Linux, and many more)</div><div>  public-key encryption</div><div>  the Internet</div><div>  GPS & sat nav</div><div>  searching (AltaVista, Google Search, Bing, DuckDuckGo)</div><div>  social networking (email, Usenet, MySpace, Twitter, FB)</div><div>  crowdsourcing (free software, Wikipedia, gofundme, pledgemusic, Uber/Lyft, Grubhub/DoorDash)</div><div><br></div><div>Coming soon? Maybe:</div><div><br></div><div>  AI</div><div>  uploading</div><div><br></div><div>-Dave</div></div></div>