22 Jan
2023
22 Jan
'23
12:12 a.m.
Real computers with keyboards etc won't go away; think about
all those servers running the backends of the apps and the
databases for the cool stuff on the phones. Someone is still
going to have to write those bits.
Arnold
Luther Johnson <luther(a)makerlisp.com> wrote:
Well, that's a comforting thought, I hope it goes
that way.
On 01/19/2023 06:10 PM, John Cowan wrote:
On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 5:23 PM Luther Johnson <luther(a)makerlisp.com
<mailto:luther@makerlisp.com>> wrote:
Computers that are not smart phone-like are definitely on the
endangered
species list. You know, the kind on a desk, with a keyboard ...
I don't have statistics for this, but I doubt it. Consider amateur
radio, which has been around for a century now. Amateur stations are
an ever-shrinking *fraction* of all transmitters, to say nothing of
receivers, but in absolute terms there are now more than 2 million
hams in the world, which is almost certainly more than ever.