[ExI] Did Hugo de Garis leave the field?

[Kelly Anderson]

On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 3:11 AM, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> 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.

But socially, it was a mega-quake/tsunami to put it in people's homes.

>> Internet, cell phone, laser
>
> Packet-switching is 1968. Mobile phone is 1973.
>
>> printers, none of that constitutes a paradigm shift? If so, then whata
>
> Laser is 1960, laser printer is 1969.
>
>> does?
>
> The switch from phytobiomass to fossil energy. Industrialization.
>
> Paradigm shifts are rarer than people seem to think.

So in your opinion, when was the last real paradigm shift and what was it?

-Kelly