I searched Google for this recently and could not find it. I tried it again on Google Groups just now and found one reference to it: https://groups.google.com

I searched Google for this recently and could not find it. I tried it again on Google Groups just now and found one reference to it: https://groups.google.com/g/comp.arch/c/Y4C_Zjkb9VM/m/scDk_08TeIsJ https://groups.google.com/g/comp.arch/c/Y4C_Zjkb9VM/m/scDk_0... > Killer micros of today are a lot like flourescent lights -- cheap to operate, prevalent, and expensive to turn off. To see a machine standing idle, when you were raised as a child to "use cycles efficiently" is a gut-wrenching experience. Just remember Alan Kay's prediction: In the future, computers will come in cereal boxes and we will throw them away. March 20, 1990. I haven't found a source for Alan Kay's prediction.