30 Years On, The PC Is No Longer The Leading Edge Of Computing

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30 Years On, The PC Is No Longer The Leading Edge Of Computing [bbc.co.uk]

PCs are going the way of typewriters, vinyl records and vacuum tubes, one of the engineers who worked on the original machine has said.

The claim was made in a blog post commemorating 30 years since the launch of the first IBM personal computer.

No longer, said Dr Mark Dean, are PCs the leading edge of computing.

No single device has taken the PC's place, he said, instead it has been replaced by the socially-mediated innovation it has fostered.

I was thinking back 30 years to my first PC in the office. Others looked on in amazement at what it could do.
Previously, it'd been the mainfram and mini that ruled the roost.

[brotherhood of LAN]

I was thinking that too jecasc, but the tablet can still be unhooked for when you're mobile.

[J_RaD]

Ok - but if you hook in a USB keyboard, mouse - perhaps additional monitor - what are you doing then? You are turning your tablet into a Desktop PC.

but that doesn't make the fisher price OS go away.

[graeme_p]

That is why I want a tablet with a more flexible OS. There are some, but not available where I live. When I replace my laptop I might buy one through a package forwarder.

Otherwise a netbook, and I can continue using my cheap tablet as an ebook reader (which is what it mostly gets used as anyway).