Smartness Spectrum: The Invisible Smarter

If you study and analyze the natural progression of technologies, you can see a simple trend: objects of any kind are getting smaller, faster, and simpler. I still recall the first time I used a computer as a teenager—like it was yesterday. I was at my uncle’s office in Austin. Nobody was around the office so I decided to power up IBM’s desktop computer (1981) with MS-DOS[1] (5.25") disk. It was such an intimidating experience for me. I felt stupid. I couldn’t figure out how to use the damn c...