Late in 1984, as a spotty year 10 student, I found myself in a city computer store fooling around with a computer unlike any other. I’d already had a few years cutting my teeth on Sinclair’s ZX81, and my local high school’s solitary green-screen Apple IIe. But in front of me was the combination of… Read More
'Pad'dling to a new shore
If you wanted to allow people to get from one side of a river to the other, you could provide boats, and teach them how to use them or build a bridge, and let them walk across – something they already know how to do. I first heard that arresting analogy at a presentation in… Read More