I'm happy for you, but where is Tinker Town?
I mentioned 'Bicycle for the Mind' and today the Simulation responds, via Hacker News, with this:
schmud.de/posts/2022-08-23-the-consumer-computer.html
Quote:
How the Consumer Computer is Consuming Computing
August 23, 2022
When the personal computer went from being a “bicycle for the mind” to a surveilled shopping mall.
Early personal computing was filled with grand proclamations about the benefits of the technology. The PC was touted as an empowering “bicycle the mind" and networked machines were set to connect people near and far. Forty years later, PCs and other small computers are connected and ubiquitous, but the benefits are unclear.
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Our contemporary personal computers, tablets, and smart phones are more accurately described as “consumer computers.” Some machines may be used as a bicycle for the mind, but they were primarily designed from the beginning as products of consumption.
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Followed by Modern History:
The California Mythology
Enter the Adman
The Consumer Computer
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