{"id":124,"date":"2004-09-21T23:37:06","date_gmt":"2004-09-22T03:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=124"},"modified":"2004-09-21T23:42:54","modified_gmt":"2004-09-22T03:42:54","slug":"how-far-weve-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=124","title":{"rendered":"How far we&#8217;ve come&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From 1954:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/images\/photos\/homecomputer.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/images\/photos\/homecomputer_tn.jpg\" alt=\"homecomputer\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The caption reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Scientists from the RAND Corporation have created this model to illustrate how a &#8220;home computer&#8221; could look like in the year 2004.  However the needed technology will not be economically feasible for the average home. Also the scientists readily admit that the computer will require not yet implemented technology to actually work, but 50 years from now scientific progress is expected to solve those problems.  With teletype interface and the FORTRAN language, the computer will be easy to use and only&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unfortunately the remaining text was cut off, otherwise I think we would have gotten an idea of what a 1954-era person would think a 2004-era computer would have cost.<\/p>\n<p>Funny, I never learned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faqs.org\/faqs\/fortran-faq\/\">FORTRAN<\/a>, yet I can use my two home computers and one laptop just fine (I don&#8217;t think <em>they<\/em> know FORTRAN, either).  Besides, from what I hear from friends who once had to learn FORTRAN as part of an engineering course in college, it&#8217;s something that&#8217;s not exactly easy to use by any stretch of the imagination, especially compared to the point-and-click GUI environments of today.<\/p>\n<p>My computers don&#8217;t have that awesome steering wheel though.  I&#8217;d love to have one of those mounted to my computer-wall. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo from 1954, presumably from the 1940s or 1950s, depicting what a home computer would look like in 2004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets-widgits-and-whatzits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}