So, the Apple II was the first personal computer. Steve Jobs took much of his ideas from the Atari game system which was out before the first PC (personal computer). Also, Microsoft's Graphic User Interface, as well as Apple's, were ideas taken from an In-House computer system that was operating at Xerox, but Xerox never capitalized on it because the big wigs at corporate did not agree that a GUI (graphic user interface) was the future of the personal computer. And so Apple and Microsoft both became famous from using other people's ideas.
I think that it's hard for someone to know what the future will bring. I can't imagine being 50 or 60 yrs old right now, seeing how far we have come with technology, through gaming, war, and a technological revolution. From computers the size of houses to computers the size of my palm. It's crazy, however, there isn't much new technology coming out, bluetooth, wireless internet, mainly things are just getting smaller, but not new.
What else can we do?
Wireless electricity-convert electrons into some sort of wave that travels through the air, then the receiver uses those waves to vibrate something that creates, or converts back to electrons??
Teleportation? 3-D Projections; Holograms? Computers controlled fully by our brain? Robots controlled by our brains? Hovercraft cars?
Whatever we come out with, I hope my lifetime brings something new, not just something smaller.
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