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© Andrew Gregory

© Andrew Gregory

Article from Issue 200/2017
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The unstoppable march of progress.

The unstoppable march of progress

We often talk about modern technology as advanced, and think of it as the pinnacle of electronics mastery. It's not. Future historians will look back on the devices and computers we use now and think of them as the first, fledgling attempts by a people still getting to grips with the ideas and concepts of the area. Don't forget that we're still well within the first hundred years of programmable computers, which may seem like a long time, but in terms of human progress, it barely counts as a moment. I don't have a magic looking glass that tells me which way technology will go, but I am sure that the golden age of computing is ahead of us, and not behind.

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