🌊 Ripple · counterfactual
What if the first electronic computers had gone differently?
1945 · north-america
Room-sized machines of vacuum tubes do in seconds what took teams of humans weeks.
If it had gone differently: Calculation stays the work of human "computers" with desk machines; the information age has no engine to run on.
What it set up
- 1947The transistor, Computers stay room-sized, rare and institutional; there is no personal, portable, cheap electronics.
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