The Secret Father of Modern Computing
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The Secret Father of Modern Computing
Norbert Wiener, as one of the early pioneers of information technology, perceived the digital computer as being fundamentally different from the mechanical technologies that preceded it. It was a game changer: a new kind of machine with the potential to usher in a new age—and, ultimately, perhaps rend the very fabric of society. Yet, Wiener’s views
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In the late 1970s, Adam Osborne was considered by many to be a visionary of the fledgling microcomputer industry. He published his views on its technology and markets in books and magazine articles. In 1981, he introduced the Osborne 1, a portable computer with bundled software that sold for $1,795. His vision was a computer for the masses—not the
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Everything that has occurred in Silicon Valley in the last couple of decades also occurred in the 1850s. Anyone who thinks that wild-ass high tech venture capitalism is a late-20th-century California phenomenon needs to read about the maniacs who built the first transatlantic cable projects. The only things that have changed since then are that the... See more
Wired • Mother Earth Mother Board
The 4044 founded Intel’s decades-long prominence in microchip design that led to the first personal computers (the relatively expensive, slow and heavy desktops of the late 1970s and early 1980s) and portable electronics ranging from mobile phones (the first costly designs of the late 1980s) to laptops, tablets, and smartphones.
Vaclav Smil • How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
the son of a computer science pioneer. He was a soft-spoken nonconformist, a rebel with a 10x cause: