The History of the Personal Computer
Les révolutions technologiques commencent le plus souvent à bas bruit. Personne ne s’est réveillé un matin de 1760 en s’écriant : « Oh mon Dieu, la révolution industrielle vient de démarrer ! » Même la révolution informatique a progressé pendant bien des années cahin-caha, discrètement, menée par des passionnés qui bidouillaient dans leur coin des
... See moreWalter Isaacson • Elon Musk (Documents) (French Edition)
Mitchell and I had stumbled upon a plain truth: personal computers are deskbound, like typewriters, and are unsuitable for people who spend their time away from a desk or work face to face with others.
Jerry Kaplan • Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure
The Apple iPad is a wonderful example here, for it appeals not only to technology enthusiasts and visionaries (“It is just so cool!”), but equally so to pragmatists (“No training costs!”) and to conservatives (“No training, period!”). When you watch a toddler playing with one, you realize just how far we have come from control-alt-delete. That said
... See moreGeoffrey A. Moore • Crossing the Chasm, 3rd Edition: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers (Collins Business Essentials)
The widespread adoption of the ‘desktop’ metaphor underscored that early personal computers would become workplace technologies.
CRAIG ROBERTSON • The Filing Cabinet
And worst of all, we’ve lost sight of the most salient part about computers: their malleability. We’ve acquiesced the creation of our virtual worlds, where we now spend most of our time, to the select few who can spend the millions to hire enough software engineers. So many of the photons that hit our eyes come from purely fungible pixels, yet for ... See more