terça-feira, julho 07, 2015

Curiosidade do dia

Para mais um banho de humildade sobre a capacidade dos humanos preverem o futuro:
"The limitations come from what people actually do with computers, as opposed to what the marketers expect them to do. On the whole, people don't want to lug a computer with them to the beach or on a train to while away hours they would rather spend reading the sports or business section of the newspaper. Somehow, the microcomputer industry has assumed that everyone would love to have a keyboard grafted on as an extension of their fingers. It just is not so.
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But the real future of the laptop computer will remain in the specialized niche markets. Because no matter how inexpensive the machines become, and no matter how sophisticated their software, I still can't imagine the average user taking one along when going fishing."
Trechos retirados de "THE EXECUTIVE COMPUTER" (Dezembro de 1985)


HT ‏@ValaAfshar

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