Discussion TechnologyMarchesOn / Computers

Agreed. A lot of this needs to be cleaned up, simplified, and redundant sections removed. There are also examples of "Computer Technology Marches On" that aren't really examples of that at all, just examples of computers in general. For example, the entire entry on Robert Heinlein's "The Moon is A Harsh Mistress" under the "Computer Interface/Literature" section is completely irrelevant. No archaic ideas of how people would interface with computers is given, nor is the story even an example of the trope, except possibly as an aversion. On top of that, whoever wrote that entry obviously never read the book as the computer "Mike" was not programed with Mannie's prosthetic arm... his "number 3 arm" was used for ELECTRICAL work on Mike when they wanted to be able to talk using the phone system. In fact, in chapter 4 it states explicitly that Mike isn't directly programed at ALL, but is "self programing". (which is actually pretty prescient about how most code is written now-a-days... by computers, not by people... people just tell computers what code they want and the computer does it... most computer programmers don't even know what a CPU register even is anymore)