What is “personal computing”? What is the history of the “PC”? Is a “mobile, smartphone” a “PC”?
What was the counter-culture – revolution – of “personal computing” in the 1970s?
Are people in charge and in control of computing machines? Who are the “people”? Are there four kinds of “people”: The Elite, The Professionals, The Ordinary People, and The Next Generation? In the Context of IT: think of an Elite made up of the Big Tech IT Corporations (Microsoft, Apple, Meta, Alphabet, Amazon, Baidu, Open AI, Adobe, joined by Nvidia); think of the Professionals as creatives, managers, and the tech-savvy employing computing; think of the Ordinary People largely as gadget-led consumers of technology; think of the Next Generation born into the digital world, becoming digital natives and either following their parents example or becoming circumspect, anxious, overwhelmed by it all?
The “personal computer” ETC ETC ETC