The number of technical people today is vastly larger than it was back then. Their number just looks small because there's a new phenomenon of mainstream casual

The number of technical people today is vastly larger than it was back then. Their number just looks small because there's a new phenomenon of mainstream casual computing and those numbers dwarf anything else. Personally I don't consider the black rectangles real computers. They're consumer content consumption devices, basically like televisions. They are to computers what a TV is to a production studio.