I believed that the computer would become an alternative to radio and MTV, and in 1993 I left to start Launch Media, an online music site, with Bob Roback, my best friend from high school.
The term personal computer would become commonplace later.
"I thought the computer would become very creative," he says.
The phrase "ubiquitous computing" was coined at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in the late 1980s by the scientist Mark Weiser, and described a world in which computers would become what Weiser later termed "calm technologies": unseen, silent servants, available everywhere and anywhere.
And he was also early to recognize that personal computers would become a commodity business like consumer electronics, and focused his company's efforts on squeezing costs out of the manufacturing process and passing the savings along to buyers.
For example, for a network of 50,000 computers, if 0.4% of them were honey pots, some 5% of computers would become infected by a virus before they were immunised.
If the legislation passes, critics warn that personal computers would become nothing more than a costly but entirely dumb machine for playing DVDs.The bill could also criminalise open-source software, such as the increasingly popular operating system, Linux.
She published the first complex computer programme for a system that didn't even exist and predicted that computers would become tools of human imagination.
Dr. Kay and his researchers had been early to foresee that computers would become more than digital calculators, evolving into a medium capable of blending sound, digital video and information.
