“There Is No Reason for Any Individual to Have a Computer in Their Home”
&gt; To understand the mindset of this period it is important to recognize the distinction between a computer terminal and a free-standing computer. Some experts believed that individuals would have terminals at home that communicated with powerful remote computers providing utility-like services for information and interaction. These experts believed that an isolated computer at home would be too under-powered to be worthwhile.<p>Considering how the majority of the general population&#x27;s use of &quot;computers&quot; is really interacting with remote and cloud services (Facebook, Netflix, etc) this is a valid argument today. While today&#x27;s equivalent of terminals (phones, tablets, and even PCs) have a significant amount of local computing ability, for the most part they really are just used as fancy terminals. Gaming is maybe the one mainstream application where local compute is important.<p>The other quote that stuck out to me was this:<p>&gt; “The personal computer will fall flat on its face in business because users want to share files and want more than one user on the system,”