A friend of mine recently forwarded me the picture below (with caption). It's from a 1954 issue of Popular Mechanics.



If you can't read the caption, it says "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 30 years from now scientific progress is expected to solve those problems. With teletype interface and the Fortran (sic) language, the computer will be easy to use."

There are times I think my laptop is too big. Then I look at this and stop complaining. Think of how much *power* that thing would consume.

Then again, for those that have seen my basement, I already consume plenty of power as it is on computing devices...

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