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One interesting thing about these ads is that they were the thing that helped create the market. Contemporary ads are just there to convince people that a given

One interesting thing about these ads is that they were the thing that helped create the market. Contemporary ads are just there to convince people that a given computer is better than another given computer; the old ads also had to convince people and companies that computers were worth having at all

tootie 4y ago
And back then computing products were wildly different. Hardware and software was all proprietary and sold through relatively few retailers. Entire segments of industry were rushing to figure out how to fit in the computer age. And it was all super expensive. Ads were likely explaining things customers had no idea about.
ilaksh 4y ago
I think some VR and AR devices are kind of in the creating the market category now. Or recently and over the next few years. To me if Lynx R1 had a little bit better field of view and just worked slightly better then that type of device could be a game changer. Over the next few years the comfort and capabilities of AR devices may actually make desktop computing for productivity obsolescent. I think there is also going to be a major revolution one or two decades down the line with brain computer interfaces. I wonder what type of ad you need to create that market. But also maybe one or more like two decades down the line we can probably expect real compute-in-memory devices. The "metaverse" still has some competition going. It may turn out that much of what people call the metaverse is a new type of browser that uses web assembly and a special shading language or something to create a type of networked operating system on top of various platforms. There is still room for competition in determining those standards. Hopefully one or more of these paradigm shifts will provide at least a brief period of somewhat open competition.

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One interesting thing about these ads is that they were the thing that helped create the market. Contemporary ads are just there to convince people that a given

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tootie 4y ago
And back then computing products were wildly different. Hardware and software was all proprietary and sold through relatively few retailers. Entire segments of industry were rushing to figure out how to fit in the computer age. And it was all super expensive. Ads were likely explaining things customers had no idea about.
ilaksh 4y ago
I think some VR and AR devices are kind of in the creating the market category now. Or recently and over the next few years. To me if Lynx R1 had a little bit better field of view and just worked slightly better then that type of device could be a game changer. Over the next few years the comfort and capabilities of AR devices may actually make desktop computing for productivity obsolescent. I think there is also going to be a major revolution one or two decades down the line with brain computer interfaces. I wonder what type of ad you need to create that market. But also maybe one or more like two decades down the line we can probably expect real compute-in-memory devices. The "metaverse" still has some competition going. It may turn out that much of what people call the metaverse is a new type of browser that uses web assembly and a special shading language or something to create a type of networked operating system on top of various platforms. There is still room for competition in determining those standards. Hopefully one or more of these paradigm shifts will provide at least a brief period of somewhat open competition.