February 2020
“Do You Compute?” Talk by author Ryan Mungia
It's almost impossible to imagine, but there was a time - no too long ago - when computers meant very little to the general public. Magazine ads and marketing brochures for the unwieldy machines first targeted aerospace and engineering companies, but after the invention of the microchip in the 1970s which led to personal computers and video games, flashy marketing campaigns targeting individual consumers took off. By the end of the millennium, the notion of selling tech burst wide open to include robots, cell…
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