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Re:The Great Software Stagnation by yrimaxi on Friday January 01, 2021 @07:51PM (#25609065)
> If an engineer in 1996 fell into a coma and woke up today, they'd be greeted with an entirely different world. We're driving around in electric cars, carrying around cell phones that are orders of magnitude faster than desktop PCs from 1996, and communication technology has evolved to the point that many of us are seamlessly working from home.

But these things were not driven by software innovations.

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Re:The Great Software Stagnation by Gibbon1 on Friday January 01, 2021 @08:16PM (#25609216)
Having been an engineer in 1996. Really nothing wasn't foreseen by anyone with a feel for how things were going.

In 1996 a friend was dating an engineer with an electric car. She'd thrown a bunch of time and money into it. Had a range of about 80-90 miles and wasn't slow at all.

Around then there was skunks works a couple of buildings away from me. On the spectrum analyzer I could see spread spectrum signals showing up at 900 and 2.4GHZ.

Edit: Stay classy HN.

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