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Re: Woz interview
I would say that there is still room for technology to be amazing. I can
imagine some pretty freaky biotech inventions will knock everyone's socks
off! The wetware age hasn't even begun... :)
Tim
"Charles Richmond" <richmond@ev1.net> wrote in message
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> Robert McAllister wrote:
> >
> > Doede wrote:
> >
> > "Steve ends with: 'I really would like a chance to recreate the Apple II
> > fun someday.'
> >
> > -----
> >
> > I don't believe that same leap or high or whatever you want to call it
> > as far as the personal computer itself is possible now. PC s are so
> > universal now, mundane, not like back in the Eighties, or for those of
> > you who got a real early start, the Seventies. Now it seems as though
> > everyone has one, like toasters. Processors get faster and storage
> > capacity increases, and someone is always finding a more efficient way
> > to do things (except for Microsoft), but there doesn't seem to be the
> > potential for that same "amazement" that at least I felt back in the
> > Eighties when I got my //c (not that I was ever any kind of computer
> > geek as you can tell from the questions I ask, but it was pretty cool
> > back then).
> >
> > Then again maybe I'm just nuts.
> >
> Maybe both--maybe it was pretty cool back then *and* maybe you
> are just nuts *also*...
>
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