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To: B-Chan
In 1959, we had computers

Right. And the computing/storage capability of today's laptops would have weighed about 10 million pounds and have been the size of a the pentagon. Cost? Probably about the same as obamacare.

I'll take the unimpressive tech of today and he can stick with the '59 version.

17 posted on 08/12/2010 3:45:48 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (The Obama magic is <strike>fading</strike>gone.)
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To: Right Wing Assault

I’d go crazy without my Tivo, lol.. I don’t know how I made it without DVR’s until 1999.


33 posted on 08/12/2010 4:20:53 PM PDT by Tolsti2
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To: Right Wing Assault

I think that computing power has become so commonplace that it is simply taken for granted.

Don’t you?

I mean, in 1959 I sincerely doubt anyone would have considered it even possible to be driving down the road in a computer controlled vehicle, using a computer based GPS system to give you directions all the while looking up where you want to eat that evening on your handheld smartphone computer.

Heck, science fiction of that time had not even imagined such wonders.

I completely disagree with the premise of this piece.

Cheers,

knewshound


45 posted on 08/12/2010 4:38:32 PM PDT by knews_hound (Credo Quia Absurdium--take nothing seriously unless it is absurd. E. Clampus Vitus)
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