The average family home, cory practices her violin. Christian plays with his cars, and mike and carol worry over the bills. We went into the 1980s in pretty much the same technology thats been in place for a couple decades. Typewriter. Calculators, tv, oven. A car. You listen to music on a big old stereo system with a turn table. Maybe you had a digital watch, and that was the only thing that was going to be digital that you actually owned. Hello . Im not here now, but my faithful machine is. There was a handful of technology at that time. One was the telephone answering machine. Youd be drive home, and youd say, i cant wait to check my messages. You know, it had become part of the day, honey, im checking my messages. p tranquility of california. Americans are tuning out and tuning in. When i think of technology in the 1980s, i think of the walkman. The walkman was huge. Its the latest fad. Tiny stereo cassette players with featherweight headphones. Its like carrying your stereo with y
So youve just bought your first personal computer, youve brought it home from the store, youre unpacking it and then comes the moment of truth. If youve just bought your first personal computer, this show is for you. Computers were in 1990 a disconnected device. It was a brick, right . That sat in your house and let you do Amazing Things that youd never been able to do before but it was essentially a productivity tool. Now that we have all these very powerful tools, were still islands and were still not really connecting these people using these powerful tools together. Apple was in a period of decline. Steve jobs quit in kind of a temper tantrum in 1985. And he went off and started a Company Called next. After he left, there was a sequence of pretty boring unimaginative corporate leadership that followed him. Why did you leave apple . Well, why did i leave apple . I was asked to leave. Yeah, i was asked to leave apple. I was planning on spending the rest of my life there, but didnt wo
Midst of it, thank you. The average family home, cory practices her violin. Christian plays with his cars, and mike and carol worry over the bills. We went into the 1980s in pretty much the same technology thats been in place for a couple decades. Typewriter. Calculators, tv, oven. A car. You listen to music on a big old stereo system with a turn table. Maybe you had a digital watch, and that was the only thing that was going to be digital that you actually owned. Hello . Im not here now, but my faithful machine is. There was a handful of technology at that time. One was the telephone answering machine. Youd be driving home and youd say, i cant wait to check my messages. You know, it had become part of the day, honey, im checking my messages. From the noisy streets of new york to the laidback tranquility of california. Americans are tuning out and tuning in. When i think of technology in the 1980s, i think of the walkman. The walkman was huge. Its the latest fad. Tiny stereo cassette p
Almost a cult. Were no longer on the verge of the personal computer revolution. Were right in the midst of it, the average family home, cory practices her violin. Christian plays with his cars, and mike and carol worry over the bills. We went into the 1980s in pretty much the same technology thats been in place for a couple decades. Typewriter. Calculators, tv, oven. A car. You listen to music on a big old stereo system with a turn table. Maybe you had a digital watch, and that was the only thing that was going to be digital that you tu owned. Hello . Im not here now, but my faithful machine is. There was a handful of technology at that time. One was the telephone answering machine. Youd be driving home, and youd say, i cant wait to check my messages. You know, it had become part of the day, honey, im checking my messages. From the noisy streets of new york to the laidback tranquility of california. Americans are tuning out and tuning in. When i think of technology in the 1980s, i thin
The average family home, cory practices her violin. Christian plays with his cars, and mike and carol worry over the bills. We went into the 1980s in pretty much the same technology thats been in place for a couple decades. Typewriter. Calculators, tv, oven. A car. You listen to music on a big old stereo system with a turn table. Maybe you had a digital watch, and that was the only thing that was going to be digital that you actually owned. Hello . Im not here now, but my faithful machine is. There was a handful of technology at that time. One was the telephone answering machine. Youd be driving home, and youd say, i cant wait to check my messages. You know, it had become part of the day, honey, im checking my messages. From the noisy streets of new york to the laidback tranquility of california. Americans are tuning out and tuning in. When i think of technology in the 1980s, i think of the walkman. The walkman was huge. Its the latest fad. Tiny stereo cassette players with featherweig