December 2010
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Computers in Disguise
At the dawn of the Windows era, 3.1 to be exact, my mom told me Bill Gates predicted that in the near future, using computers will be as easy as using a telephone. This was at a time when using a telephone simply meant picking up the receiver, dialing the person’s number, and waiting for that person to respond. Easy. It was also a time when using a computer was akin to rocket science, where...