[kosciusko51]

There were plenty of dead ends along the way. Interactive television. Fifth-generation computing. Parallel processing. Virtual reality. Artificial intelligence. At various times each of these phrases was popular with governments and in the media, and each attracted vast sums of money, but proved premature or exaggerated.

I'm not sure why the author thinks parallel processing is a dead end. Most modern supercomputers rely on parallel processing to crunch the data.

VR and AI were overhyped and have not grown as fast as expected, but are still being developed and implemented.

[George from New England]

I find search engines have become a real pain to use.

First, most results are years old and many 10 years old.

I see no easy way to limit searches to a date range.

So much garbage has been left on the web that 95% is outdated and wrong.

[mylife]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F1bWgyPgII

The chip that Jack built.

[ecomcon]

When they began to use it for search, they realized they had a much more intelligent engine than anything on the market because it ranked sites that the world thought were important enough to link to higher than those that happened to contain key words.

So now, instead of what "the world" thinks is important, it is what Google tells the world what they think is important.

It boils down to Google disseminating information, as they see fit.

[ßuddaßudd]

and I just got done reading about my employers MIMO efforts ..

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Good summary article. Thanks for posting. For those of us living in Silicon Valley, it’s a trip down Memory Lane (even though I was never in the silicon biz).

The author wrote “With eager backing from venture capitalists they set up in a garage and began to build a business.”

Yesterday afternoon I was out for a walk in the neighborhood and not too far from us there was a house with the double-car garage door open. Against the far wall was a large desk with two HUGE computer monitors side-by-side and two guys staring intently at the screens. My very first thought was “I wonder what business they are cooking up?” It’s such a common occurrence here.

[blam]

In 1958 when 'others' were writing in their engineering notebook about the idea of a solid state intergrated circuit, 'chip', all American Jack Kilby was at Texas Instruments on Buffalo Bayou in Houston, Texas testing his first chip. Jack was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2000 for that invention. Intel had nothing to do with it.

The chip that Jack made.

In 1968 when Moore & Noyce were starting Intel, I was making chips at start-up National Semiconduct in Santa Clara, Calif.