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To: discostu

You’re right. You did concede that smartphones are new. So take my post above and replace “all from a device the size of a deck of cards” and replace it with “all from my desk,” and you would say that nothing in that is new.


103 posted on 05/04/2012 10:47:41 AM PDT by ReignOfError
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To: ReignOfError

On your desk then it’s the functions of a computer (goes back to the 50s) connected to the internet (goes back to the 60s). Is that new? I was playing Adventure (pre-cursor to Zork) on the dumb terminal my dad had in his home so he could what we now call telecommute in late 70s. A lot of this stuff isn’t nearly as new as folks think, the interface is new, the speed is new, the convenience is new, the percentage of people that can do it is new, the concept and general ability is nowhere near new.


104 posted on 05/04/2012 10:59:28 AM PDT by discostu (I did it 35 minutes ago)
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