More like the computing world has rebooted itself 1-2 times. First there were institutional computers, the big irons (or dinosaurs as the web kiddies love to c

More like the computing world has rebooted itself 1-2 times. First there were institutional computers, the big irons (or dinosaurs as the web kiddies love to call them these days). then came the microcomputer, and it spread computing to people that had barely heard about it. This largely rebooted the thinking about computing. Then came the smartphone, and similarly it brought in a whole mass of people that had minimal interest for the earlier iterations. And thus we seem to have another reboot going. The reboot is as much mental and social as it is technical btw. There is a technical layer to it sure, as there has to be some amount of hardware and software to draw people in. But what really reboots things is when the number of people that come in overwhelm those that are already in, and thus the newcomers have time to form their own mental and social models of how things should be.