Computer Advances

From: William Donzelli <william_at_ans.net>
Date: Thu Jul 17 17:33:15 1997

> Somehow, it seems like most of the major breakthroughs/advances in the
> use of computers took place early on, i.e. word processing,
> spreadsheets, and databases, and what has been taking place over the
> past 15 - 20 years would fall more into a refinement catagory. We are
> getting faster hardware, more ability (also known as bells and
> whistles), but no major breakthroughs that open up a whole new field for
> the use of computers. Am I missing something?

"Recent" advances would be networking, GUIs, and object-oriented systems.
Hmmm...all of these are early seventies Xerox innovations...

A continuing series of advancements is occurring in fabrication
technologies, perhaps with IBM leading the way (they have always been
ahead of everyone else).

William Donzelli
william_at_ans.net
Received on Thu Jul 17 1997 - 17:33:15 BST