Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Arthur C. ClarkeI am old enough (easily) to remember when home computers were widely considered “a solution in search of a problem.”Around the time IBM and Apple released their first desktop models, about all anyone could think to use them for was balancing the checkbook and installing recipes. And who would pay what was then a hefty price for a machine to do those things? Very few people, as it turned out. We all know what has happened since. Computers got steadily more powerful and less expensive. Printers improved. The Internet came
