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Re:TheFacebook.com’s darker side (2004) by laurieg on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @01:04AM (#13479044)
Orville Wright (of the Wright brothers) went from developing early airplanes to seeing the development of international travel and the jet engine. He lived until 1948 and his last flight was in a Lockheed Constellation[1]

In computer science we are similarly privileged. We've gone from basic ideas of transistors and turing machines to having a global network of interconnected supercomputers in our pockets.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Constellation

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Re:TheFacebook.com’s darker side (2004) by ChuckMcM on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @02:19AM (#13479425)
I don't disagree, I'm just saying that there is a certain design ugliness that seems to be unique to turn of the century technology.
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Re:TheFacebook.com’s darker side (2004) by coldtea on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @07:28AM (#13480843)
>I'm just saying that there is a certain design ugliness that seems to be unique to turn of the century technology.

And I'm saying that this is highly subjective and/or controversial.

There are tons of beautiful 80s and 90s electronics devices.

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Re:TheFacebook.com’s darker side (2004) by ChuckMcM on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @01:03PM (#13484000)
Totally agree, it is hugely subjective.
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Re:TheFacebook.com’s darker side (2004) by bluecmd on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @02:01AM (#13479340)
Quite interesting that super-sonic flight was achieved 1946. I don't know if Orville was informed, but imagine that - from barely flying to supersonic in 40 years.
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Re:TheFacebook.com’s darker side (2004) by bencollier49 on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @06:59AM (#13480684)
There is an often-quoted truthoid that says that any technology takes 50 years from inception to maturity.
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Re:TheFacebook.com’s darker side (2004) by contravariant on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @07:06PM (#13487464)
Seems to work for big scientific theories as well, more or less. Although an alternative explanation is that after 50 or so most of the original group of people driving the development will be gone, and as a result you end up with several loosely connected but separate developments. Which isn't really a sign of maturity, but merely a lack of coherence.
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Re:TheFacebook.com’s darker side (2004) by benwad on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @05:38AM (#13480293)
23 more years and we were on the moon!
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