The Five Stages of Digital Death and Dying
January 5, 2019
Check out “Childhood’s End.” I noted this passage:
The digital revolution progressed through five stages: the repurposing of war-surplus analog vacuum tube components into the first generation of fully-electronic stored-program computers; the era of large central mainframes; the era of the microprocessor and personal computer; the advent of the Internet; and finally the era of fully-metazoan codes that populate the mobile landscape of today. The next revolution is the assembly of digital components into analog computers, similar to the way analog components were assembled into digital computers in the aftermath of World War II.
There you go, you fully metazoan code unit. Is this another way for a vacuum expert to say something sucks?
Stephen E Arnold, January 5, 2019
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