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“It was a great ad because it didn’t actually tell you anything,” recalls Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science Harry R. Lewis, “it just told you that it was coming.” Lewis was one of the...
More worrisome than our shorter attention spans, however, is the alienation that accompanies the new ways in which we inform and communicate with each other. In the academic realm, we can now search for terms in Google books without reading the book itself. This may work wonders for a short...
“I remember standing there on the corner of Oxford Street,” he says, pointing out the window of his office in Maxwell Dworkin, “with this box with the Mac logo on it.” His outstretched hand passes over bookshelves cluttered...
According to Draves, the majority of students who used computers at Harvard relied on this central system for any coursework that required a computer. Computer memory, however, was in short supply: “this machine had about four megabytes of memory,” says Draves. ?...
Having to cope with high usage and an agonizingly slow computer response time led Draves to an upsetting conclusion. “I quickly realized that you basically had to pull an all-nighter to get any work done,” he says. “During the day...