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Kids Explain a Computer on a 1984 Episode of Sesame Street
via laughingsquid
Cutest thing ever. Also: gotta love those NY accents. “What does a compuwtah do?”
(Source: lonelysandwich)
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The types of computers we have today are tools. They’re responders: you ask a computer to do something and it will do it. The next stage is going to be computers as “agents.” In other words, it will be as if there’s a little person inside that box who starts to anticipate what you want. Rather than help you, it will start to guide you through large amounts of information. It will almost be like you have a little friend inside that box.
One of many amazing quotes in this 3,500-word NEWSWEEK interview with Steve Jobs, which appeared in a 1984 special issue of the magazine. Jobs was 29 at the time.
