40 years old laptop
Today, laptops differ in size, weight and functionality, but they all have one common ancestor - this is Alan Kay's Dynabook.
Alan Kay, a former employee of the Xerox PARC Research and Development Institute, put forward a fantastic idea for a laptop computer in 1968, when a typical computer weighed under a centner and worked with punch cards. Alan also proposed the idea of creating a small computer, which ideally should be a very thin, easily transportable device not heavier than one kilogram. At the same time, he should display a full A4 page on the screen without distortion (Kay estimated that this requires a million pixels).
Kay's dream, which he called Dynabook, never came true, but it was she who inspired the creation of devices that we now call laptops (laptops). Then even the word was not like that. True, it took them 40 years to embody in reality, and then decrease and accelerate to the level that Alan Kay dreamed of.
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Just today - on Wednesday - the 40th anniversary of the legendary Dynabook is solemnly celebrated at the Computer History Museum. In an interview with Wired.com, Alan Kay tells how he came up with the idea of the Dynabook concept in general, and what problems, in his opinion, are now facing computer manufacturers. For example, he believes that in the future, head-mounted displays can displace flat monitors simply because they are more efficient.
Alan Kay, a former employee of the Xerox PARC Research and Development Institute, put forward a fantastic idea for a laptop computer in 1968, when a typical computer weighed under a centner and worked with punch cards. Alan also proposed the idea of creating a small computer, which ideally should be a very thin, easily transportable device not heavier than one kilogram. At the same time, he should display a full A4 page on the screen without distortion (Kay estimated that this requires a million pixels).
Kay's dream, which he called Dynabook, never came true, but it was she who inspired the creation of devices that we now call laptops (laptops). Then even the word was not like that. True, it took them 40 years to embody in reality, and then decrease and accelerate to the level that Alan Kay dreamed of.
')
Just today - on Wednesday - the 40th anniversary of the legendary Dynabook is solemnly celebrated at the Computer History Museum. In an interview with Wired.com, Alan Kay tells how he came up with the idea of the Dynabook concept in general, and what problems, in his opinion, are now facing computer manufacturers. For example, he believes that in the future, head-mounted displays can displace flat monitors simply because they are more efficient.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/43986/
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