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> Let's say it's 1974 and you're writing an article about the desktop computer "becoming mainstream". What does that look like exactly to you? I'm guessing it doesn't look anything like the last 30 years. Not even close.

Sure it does. Read Alan Kay's "Personal Dynamic Media". His vision of the ultimate personal computer was what today we'd consider a very bulky laptop.

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Alan Kay was one of the few people in 1974 qualified to make predictions about computers. I'd compare that to Andreas Antonopoulos making predictions about bitcoin in 2011. I wouldn't trust your average journalist's predictions in either situation.

Link for the curious. http://augmentingcognition.com/assets/Kay1977.pdf

It's a neat read, from 1977 to be pedantic. It does miss networking - the DynaBook misses the forest for the trees in that it is a personal computer that doesn't account for the advent of the internet and how PCs/smartphones are a communication tool right after being a fancy calculator at their core.

In a sense that's an apt description for how a lot of people view crypto - they see it as purely a currency network, but don't realize its much more than that.

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