[ExI] Did Hugo de Garis leave the field?

[Kelly Anderson]

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.
Existing technology is not equivalent to a paradigm shift. Hero of
Alexandria built steam driven toys in antiquity. That did not result
in a paradigm shift, it was the work steam power was put to that
resulted in the real paradigm shift 2000 years later.

> The last fifty years appear in retrospect more similar to the developments
> having taken place from 1750 to 1800.
>
> A lot of nifty new gadgets, yes. Radically game-changing discoveries? No.

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. Geez, and some of you call
yourselves rocket scientists... Perhaps RK has a line on when the next
craft will be recovered... ;-)

-Kelly