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The two computers that made Apple

The Vergecast

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The Future of Computing

I wonder what would have happened if we had gone the other way. What are the incentives and structures that are going to support people learning how to be highly advanced in computer use when we have problems with like literacy rates, right? I think the social problem is the thing that's harder to imagine. We're using platforms. We don't control. The content I stream doesn't belong to me. Amazon can just pull books off my Kindle. All this stuff feels like our devices are we still call them personal computers, but they feel less personal than ever.

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