The Computer Will Fit on a Desk

“One day, a computer will fit on a desk” (1974) I brought along my son when he grows up in fact he computer and get all the This will be in a compact I wonder though what sort of enrich our society because it like this and this is a computers.

A black-and-white 1974 interview shows a suited man explaining to a father and his young son how future computers will become compact household devices providing information and communication. The son listens while enormous mainframes and early computer terminals fill the room, and the subtitles reveal an uncannily accurate prediction of modern personal computing and online life. The joke comes from the contrast between the bulky machines of 1974 and the speaker’s confident vision of the future, delivered in a serious documentary style. The audio is a calm, formal archival interview with no noticeable music or comic sound effects, making the prediction feel sincere and enhancing the irony when viewed from the present.

I bought along my son Jonathan, doing the year 2001, will be the same age as I am now, maybe he will be better adjusted to this kind of world that you are trying to portray. The big difference when he grows up, in fact he wanted to wait for the year 2001, he said he will have in his own house, not a computer as big as this, but at least a console through which he can talk to his friendly local computer and get all the information he needs for his everyday life, like his bank statements, is theatre reservations, all the information you need in the course of living in a complex modern society. This will be in a compact form in his own house. You'll have a television screen like this here, and a keyboard, and he'll talk to the computer, get information from it, and he'll take it as much for granted as we take the telephone. I wonder what sort of life would it be like in social terms. I mean, if our whole life is built around the computer, to become a computer dependent society and a computer independent individuals. In some ways, but they're also enrich our society because it'll make it possible for us to live anywhere we like. Any businessman and executive could live anywhere on earth and still do his business through a device like this. And this is a wonderful thing. It means we want him to be stuck in cities, we better live out in the country or wherever we please and and still carry on the complete interaction with human beings as well as with other computers.

• @pokupkabitka / 37827 2024-03-26