….. or
have we
In many ways, the 30-year-old software package laid the foundations for the type of productivity app that's so ubiquitous in the modern computing experience and yet so important it has been thrown into the cloud by Google with Docs, Apple with iWorks and Microsoft with Office 365.
Any
thoughts on our stagnation, is it really that Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston were they that much
smarter than everyone else/were they visited by aliens who gifted humanity the
trellis spreadsheet concepts/ or is this just the ebb and tide of evolution
since the Babylonians discovered zero and the next “big development” isnt due
for 50 years from now…...
Cheers,
Dean
I have been thinking about this as well lately! In relation to software and 'the space race'. One reason I think is that there is an attitude of near enough is good enough.
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