Forwards through the rear-view mirror
03 Sep 2010
Last year, I had my 50th birthday. With the thought of having to work for another 50 years at the back of my mind, I decided to take a look at what I had lived through - and what may be ahead.
It's been an interesting half century in technology: the first human in space in 1961, first man on the moon 1969, first heart transplant 1967, first test-tube baby 1978. IBM's first transistorised computer (the 7000) was launched in 1959. The first commercial modem from AT&T came in 1960 - the same year COBOL was developed. The first interactive...
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