How technology has changed in 6 decades
Toby Shapshak on six tech moments we’ve happily forgotten
25 October 2019 - 15:05
The silicon chip, microprocessor, the mouse, software from Windows, the relational database, cloud computing, smartphones and the mobile internet are the obvious choices for a retrospective of the tech developments in the past six decades.
Instead, I’ve chosen six things that changed our lives and blew our minds ... and which we’ve already forgotten...
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