How Computers Transformed Baby Boomers

Posted by Zonk on Sunday September 16, 2007 @06:41AM from the horrible-cyborgs dept.

theodp writes "Newsweek's Steven Levy takes a look at how the baby boomer generation formed our tech landscape. Many of the realities boomers grew up with are today's metaphors, including cut-and-paste, the origin of which the 56-year-old Levy had to explain to 20-something Google employees. Levy cites two texts as crucial in pushing the boomers' vision toward power-to-the-people computing — Ted Nelson's Computer Lib/Dream Machines, which inspired Mitch Kapor, and the January 1975 Popular Electronics, which got Bill Gates jazzed. You kids might want to check out Dad's bookshelf — used copies of Computer Lib are going for $130-$225 at Amazon."

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As a member of "GenX" let me say ... by Anonymous Coward · 2007-09-16 06:53 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I can hardly wait until the Boomers die.
Christ what a narcissistic, infantile, self-important, hypocritical generation!!

And they never ... shut ... the ... fuck ... up.
What winners the two Boomers Presidents have been?