It doesn’t happen often, but every once in a while there’s a major technology paradigm shift with new products or services that vastly change the landscape or empower us to do things we couldn’t do before. These paradigm shifts can also change how the tech affects our lives for better and worse and sometimes elicits both positive and negative attention from the public, the media and policy makers.
As someone who’s been following technology developments since the 1970’s I’ve seen them all, but whether something is truly a paradigm shift isn’t always obvious until years later.
The Mac and Windows
I’ll start the clock in the late 1970s