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…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
…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
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