"ENIAC was alphabet soup for the first computer computer. Electronic Blah Blah Something Blah. Fancy name for a room full of vacuum tubes to run what we can put in a hand-held calculator today, all to blow hell out of Japan."
Warfare drove innovation. A scarcity of resources and an over-abundance of testosterone resulted in an accelerant like no other.
Warfare and pornography. Which also drove technological adoption, from the printing press to VHS. The progression was growing exponentially; Sangamon Taylor stood at the cusp of what was commonly called the Information Age. DARPANET had already given way to email, when Sangamon could find someone willing to share office space with something that might emit electromagnetic radiation and who could be persuaded to notice the world beyond the cathode-ray tube. All-you-could-watch skin flicks were just waiting on the bandwidth capacity to exceed that of magnetic tapes packaged into paper cartons and shipped cross-country.
"Now they're all silicon -- an entire computer lithographed onto a chunk of glass the size of a quarter." Instead of a room full of vacuum tubes, it was drums full of solvents, acids, and heavy metals, all of them out of sight of the clean beige boxes that were invading every home. "Some of the shrinks have them in their offices."
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Warfare drove innovation. A scarcity of resources and an over-abundance of testosterone resulted in an accelerant like no other.
Warfare and pornography. Which also drove technological adoption, from the printing press to VHS. The progression was growing exponentially; Sangamon Taylor stood at the cusp of what was commonly called the Information Age. DARPANET had already given way to email, when Sangamon could find someone willing to share office space with something that might emit electromagnetic radiation and who could be persuaded to notice the world beyond the cathode-ray tube. All-you-could-watch skin flicks were just waiting on the bandwidth capacity to exceed that of magnetic tapes packaged into paper cartons and shipped cross-country.
"Now they're all silicon -- an entire computer lithographed onto a chunk of glass the size of a quarter." Instead of a room full of vacuum tubes, it was drums full of solvents, acids, and heavy metals, all of them out of sight of the clean beige boxes that were invading every home. "Some of the shrinks have them in their offices."