Now when we're moving to the iPhone and the iPad, and this great new generation of computing, again, Microsoft is trying to hold us back with its monopoly.
Asked how big a role he sees for virtual reality generally in the future, Pichai described it as "a nice evolution of computing", again talking up how it can be incorporated into what people see "in a natural way".
And while laptops have become associated with boring Excel documents and the other digital trappings of work, tablets are making computing fun again.
Were it not impossible to miss the publicity blitz, you might be forgiven for not knowing that Microsoft and its pals are out to change the computing landscape again.
However, even if Moore's Law fails in the future, new methods of computing, like quantum computing, may again set the industry on breakneck development speeds.
The Chudnovskys pressed onward, too, and by the fall of 1989 they had squeaked past Kanada again, having computed pi to one billion one hundred and thirty million one hundred and sixty thousand six hundred and sixty-four decimal places, without finding anything special.
We'll soon enter a new world of computing accelerated once again by the industry's creator Steve Jobs, and amplified by someone conceived after the PC, Mark Zuckerberg.
Why it is silly: Again, computing technology is rarely worth the mental energy invested in being angry.
No wonder the computer science and electrical engineering departments of leading universities are taking analog computing seriously again.
Amazon's AWS cloud computing division today once again dropped the prices for some of its reserved instances, as well as its M4 general purpose instances.
