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Michael A. Hiltzik
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in New York City, New York, The United States
November 09, 1952
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“We’ve decided to go with black and white,” he said. “This project is over.” Smith was stunned. “You’re crazy!” he blurted. “It’s going to be all color from here on out, and you guys can own it all! I can’t believe you’re shutting it down.” “Well,” Elkind replied evenly, “it’s a corporate decision.” Smith had no choice but to leave. With a fellow artist and Superpaint fanatic, David DiFrancesco, he drove off toward Utah in quest of permission to continue his work on a frame buffer installed at the university there. He failed to get it, but instead received an invitation to set up a video program at the private New York Institute of Technology. The department later transferred en masse to George Lucas’s Lucasfilm and even later was spun off as Pixar,”
― Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
― Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
“Kay remained preoccupied with a lesson he had assimilated from Marshall McLuhan: Once humans shape their tools, they turn around and “reshape us.”
― Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
― Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
“The research director at Fairchild Semiconductor Co., a brilliant engineer named Gordon Moore, contributed a four-page piece insouciantly entitled “Cramming More Components onto Integrated Circuits.” The essay forecast that as circuits became more densely packed with microscopic transistors, computing power would exponentially increase in performance and diminish in cost over the years. Moore contended that this trend could be predicted mathematically, so that memory costing $500,000 in 1965 would come all the way down to $3,000 by 1985—an insight so basic to the subsequent growth and expansion of the computer industry that ever since then it has been known as “Moore’s Law.”
― Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
― Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
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