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I used to think computers were the most boring thing in the world - until we could use them to talk to people.

Now that we’ve been using them to talk to people for over 20 years, I wish they would shut up again.

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Vetrov · 61-69, M

In 1980 l was nineteen years old and studying Electrical Engineering...basically because I thought “electronics” would be a backdoor into sound engineering.

Apocalypse Now had come out six months earlier...l had heard The Doors for the very first time!...(after being bought up on classical music since l was three) and life was suddenly “interesting”.

Anyway, Electrical Engineering was totally boring, just maths and more maths.

Designing electrical circuits for power delivery.

And something called “computer programming”.

Of which you had three hours of computer time a week.

So one day...my friends and I were sitting in the cafe talking.

About how one day there was going to be a home computer.

And we thought “what would you use it for”?

I said...”well you could work out your shopping”?

“Monthly bills”.

Nothing “else”.

(I dropped out soon after).