The Computer in Your Hands – How These Pioneers Reshaped Our World
Once upon a time… Isn’t that how all stories begin? Maybe this should too. You see, just like any other story, this tale also has its protagonists (many in fact), it has dreams and ambitions, success, and failures, and just like any story, it has an antagonist, albeit an unlikely one. This story is incredibly significant, for if it had not unfolded the way it did, the comforts we are so inherently familiar with wouldn’t have existed.
What could possibly shape our present this way? ‘Technology’ of course. Our daily existence is entangled with one piece of tech or the other. Would this have been possible if our protagonists, a group of innovators, loners, geeks, and hackers, had not had their way and gotten a computer into our homes? Perhaps not.
But is this story about computers and how they became part of our lives, say from the ’80s or ’90s? ‘Yes’ and
