I really like this visual joke.
Also, the pre-cursor era extends up to about 1968 when I was 4, so in one sense I am pre-cursor
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…In 1968 Douglas Engelbart gave ‘the mother of all demos’, in which I assume a cursor featured.
It was not until 21 years later that I became cursed
…TIL that the first computer with a windowing interface is considered to be Ivan Sutherland’s 1962 Sketchpad at MIT https://spectrum.ieee.org/graphical-user-interface
…I wonder if the era of digital computing will last much more than 100 years?
It requires electrical power. And that will be around for a very long time, even as we increasingly struggle to exist.
But computing requires incredibly precise manufacturing, and when that goes – because we have created the environmental conditions where it is no longer economically feasible – every device up to that point is on borrowed time.
I’ll be gone by then, so the cursor will have outlived me at least
@urlyman digital computing might regress, maybe even as far as the simple devices I first programmed in commercial products (2K one-time programmable memory, 128 bytes of RAM), but humanity has an unhealthy appetite for these small distractions, and they will be persued to the detriment of basic needs beyond all definitions of sanity.
@AbramKedge most certainly. And they too will buckle under thermodynamic reality
@urlyman indeed, I forgot to include my estimated lifetime for grunge tech. Nearer 2150 than ~2060. Call me an optimistic fool.
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