>> For me, it has been magic, from the day it all started.
>> PKS
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> Yes, general-purpose digital computers and their downsizing have been the defining technology of my lifetime, from the IBM 360-20 in our little programming school in the early seventies to the iPad today.
> david
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Arthur C. Clarke, "Profiles of The Future", 1961 (Clarke's third law)
And with the passage of time, the "sufficiently advanced" goalpost continues to move away from us.
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