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And yet the computer industry is the most innovative in history. Computers got faster and cheaper than any other product ever. The speed and price drop led di
by dsajames 8y ago
And yet the computer industry is the most innovative in history. Computers got faster and cheaper than any other product ever. The speed and price drop led directly to new uses every day.
The ability to write your own software without a factory led to all manner of companies writing software vs just the handful of hardware companies.
Because software is copied for zero overhead, a single blind programmer can write software for millions of people (they have).
- Retric 8y agoComputing has drawn from an incredibly wide range of people in the past. The first generation that got into the field without formal computing degree because no such thing existed have only just retired.