Attended UCSB from ‘64-’68. Remember walking by the Computer Lab with the 360. Was later told that HAL from 2001 was just IBM minus one letter and the model number was the next model after the 360. The 360 filled a room. I tell kids that no one saw the computer and its child, the internet coming. We saw flying cars and all that but not the internet. Makes me wonder what the next big thing will be that we don’t see coming.
The Second Coming of Christ.
Someone does know already, and they are already figuring out how to make money off of it, and will be very rich when it arrives.
A one-quarter megawatt power source the size of a thirty gallon drum, that vaguely resembles the appearance of R2D2?