Creative Speculation
In reply to the discussion: Greatest achievement of all time? [View all]Stuart G
(38,455 posts)....i said it earlier...but I will say it again.........
The Space Race required much smaller computers to go to the moon, (because only so much weight could go
in a space ship)..and as a result the insides of the computer started to ..............shrink..........and shrink again...
and more and more...
............In the early 80s, I took a course on the future of computers..and the professor said, that someday
we would hold a computer in our hand...and I & everyone else thought the fellow was...NUTS!!! ..And, he
also said, "Everyone would own a computer"...Everyone..???He was totally NUTS!!! in today..money $10,000
.........................TOTALLY NUTS.........
. .................and guess what.......???? he was totally correct.