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> I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." -- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943. This quote always rubs me wrong, because the problem is t
by xondono 6y ago
> I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." -- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943.
This quote always rubs me wrong, because the problem is that we’ve changed definition of what a computer is.
If you come to think about it, what he was referring to is what we would now call cloud infrastructure, and there’s not really that much more than 5 of those...
- jacobr1 6y agoYep, and that works for cloud infrastructure. But we also have mobile/IoT ...