It's Cold in the Information Age
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It's Cold in the Information Age
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#270s and 80s were relatively quiet on the tech innovation front. We might be headed for a couple of decades like that.
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#370s and 80s were relatively quiet on the tech innovation front. We might be headed for a couple of decades like that.
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#470s and 80s were relatively quiet on the tech innovation front. We might be headed for a couple of decades like that.
The end 70s and then the 80s brought personal computing to the masses. I wouldn’t call that quiet.
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#570s and 80s were relatively quiet on the tech innovation front. We might be headed for a couple of decades like that.
Oh you mean the era in which the personal computer was invented?
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#670s and 80s were relatively quiet on the tech innovation front. We might be headed for a couple of decades like that.
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#7Unfortunately for those of us living in the Anthropocene, it's hot.
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#9I really don’t get articles like this. You can rent a fleet of computers for an hour for a few dollars. Your cellular phone is more powerful than the time-sharing systems of 25 years ago. There is pervasive wireless broadband internet available in much of the world. Single computers can be bought with dozens of cores and a lake of RAM. You can look up nearly any piece of human knowledge in a few seconds. The labor of millions of engineers can be accessed via APIs which you can use to assemble a stunningly capable application with a minimal team.
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#10>The only thing I can think of is that all my laptops (thinkpads & Apple MBP) are now rocking USB-C PSUs.
Personally I think type-C might be the best example of moving the problem behind a layer of obfuscation rather than fixing it. If you look at a random device with a type-C port you have no idea what that port is capable of. Maybe it'll charge your Macbook but it won't charge your Asus. Maybe it'll support USB 3.1 or maybe it'll only be USB 2.0 like OnePlus. Counterintuitively, chances are if it's a phone and it does USB 3.1 then it won't support USB to HDMI or DisplayPort although some do, but if it's only USB 2.0 over type-C it'll probably support HDMI-out with a DisplayLink adapter. Maybe it'll break half the specifications just for the hell of it like the Nintendo Switch.
It's a bloody nightmare.