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Scientists from the RAND Corporation have created this model to illustrate how a "home computer" could look like in the year 2004. However, the needed technology will not be economically feasible for the average home. Also the scientists readily admit that the computer will require not yet invented technology to actually work, but 50 years from now scientific progress is expected to solve these problems. With teletype interface & the Fortran language, the computer will be easy to use. |
My Uncle Al sent me this picture and I thought I’d share, as it is really fascinating. This is how an article in the 1954 edition of Popular Mechanics magazine envisioned home computers in the year 2004.
Luai,
I agree with you on many points. My only problem with this holiday (and Columbus Day) is how most Americans celebrate it, and are ill informed of the history of the creation of America. While I see thanksgiving as a day to be thankful for what I have, I also make it important to not only recognize the the great things Americans did to create this country, but as well the ills this country was founded on: “Manafest Destiny”
The problem is, the average American does not realize and does not want to recognize some of the worst things this country has committed. Only when we do that, and actually LEARN from our mistakes, progres can be made.
I suggest students in high school taking American History should read Howard Zinn’s “The People’s History”
–Sorry Natasha that this has moved on from the picture to thougts about Thanksgiving
Try eating Indian Corn on the Cob. That is the ultimate revenge. Had a $2000 dentist bill after trying it! 🙂 J/K
I agree that the Natives were treated inhumanly and much was stolen from them. But so have many people through the ages both here in the US and across the world. This holiday means much more that just giving thanks to what we have. It is an opportunity to look to the future and help make the world a better place. There is not better feeling then spending turkey-day serving food to the homeless or visiting a nursing home to have turkey with those without family.
Native Indians currently receive many benefits from the US government and rightfully so; free/reduced college education for one. There is certainly no way we can repay them from what has been taken away. But I feel the casino’s should be taxed as income. Some are making more that 1 million per day profit tax free. Maybe that will help with better services on the reservations (I feel these are more like “refugee camps” with the high unemployment, drug abuse, crime rates, etc.). How about making cigarettes and liquor taxable, to cut down on the abuse of these drugs both from Natives and others who use that “law” to purchase these goods tax free? Additionally, slave reparation has been a hot topic for the past several years and the government would certainly take a big hit by making them. And what about Japanese internment? But something has to be done to right those wrongs as well.
Computing in 2004
Saw this pic at a cool blog I ran across the other day: Mental Mayhem.
Curses, foiled again!…in the spirit of Snively Whiplasn or some such ancient evildoer I stand exposed. Actually I received the picture in an email from the assistant chief engineer at our evil empire radio combine here in Memphis, Clear Channel…and he received it from another minion of the self-same empire from another evil spawn site in America!
It just shows to go you that the insidious Clear Channel is working every day to obfuscate the proletariat and keep us all from the real truth…that popcorn is going to be the Native Americans’ ultimate revenge!
Well this really does not matter because computers back then were always bigger than what we have now. It is Thanksgiving day here in America, so why dont we all just give thanks for the computers we have now. (On as side note, part of me really hates this holiday due to the massacre of almost an entire race, the Native Americans. And till this day, how do we repay those Natives who are left? We try taxing them on their casinos. Come on, the least we cand do for the Natives is to not tax them.)
Wow, Hubby, what a discovery! I think we should invite uncle Al here to defend himself;-)