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Computers by the Millions (1979) (digibarn.com)
2 points by gone35 on Nov 13, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


And a mere 18 months or so after Jeff Raskin wrote this, IBM produced the IBM-PC and the rest is history with BILLIONS of PCs covering the world today.

Arthur Clarke wrote about this failing in his "Profiles of the Future" that most people who predict the future are never brave enough to predict big enough- "A failure of Imagination"




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