Actually in the superfuture the cost is negative; advertising based on the context of recent text messages causes the operator to make a small amount of money (about $.005) per message sent.
Hi, I'm from 1971. Is "faster, smaller, cheaper" really all we're going to accomplish in hardware architecture in the next forty years? We're pretty bored with the Von Neumann architecture and can't imagine it lasting much longer.
P.S. I told Vint Cerf about Facebook and he drilled a hole in his skull to "let the evil out." Hope that doesn't screw anything up for you guys. Ciao!
I'm pretty sure I can remember this from the early '70 (I was born in '65) - for some reason the bit about Analog and Digital computers stuck in my brain....
I actually inherited this book from my grandfather. It's actually quite a nice book, and for the times, seems like a introduction.
I remember being pretty impressed by punch-cards for some time after I read the book--my attempts to find one at school were met with some quizzical looks though.
Found a copy of this at my Grans house, about a month ago. She had just picked it up at a church book club to learn more about how her (Windows 3.0) computer works :) If only we can get her to upgrade..... alas. She found it very understandable and definitely a good intro to old school computing.
I had this book as a 5-6 year old in the mid 80s. It's easy, now, to underestimate the importance of short, high level books like these on the imagination of children.
Is there anything similar today? (That, ideally, is not 99% software or content creation focused, as most introductory computing books I've seen recently are.)
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 110 ms ] threadMy telephone is more powerful than all the computers of your world put together.
I use this power to run a program that simulates a lighter on the screen of my phone.
P.S. I told Vint Cerf about Facebook and he drilled a hole in his skull to "let the evil out." Hope that doesn't screw anything up for you guys. Ciao!
Analog computing never really went away, each and every opamp is essentially an minimal analog computer.
I remember being pretty impressed by punch-cards for some time after I read the book--my attempts to find one at school were met with some quizzical looks though.
Is there anything similar today? (That, ideally, is not 99% software or content creation focused, as most introductory computing books I've seen recently are.)