Incidentally, that&#x27;s exactly what Russell Kirsch (invented the first programmable computer) told me when I ran into him in a coffee shop in Portland.<p>He said:<p>&gt; <i>“I’ve been against Macintosh company lately. They’re trying to get everyone to use iPads and when people use iPads they end up just using technology to consume things instead of making things. With a computer you can make things. You can code, you can make things and create things that have never before existed and do things that have never been done before.”</i><p>The full story is here - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;impossiblehq.com&#x2F;an-unexpected-ass-kicking&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;impossiblehq.com&#x2F;an-unexpected-ass-kicking&#x2F;</a><p>I hope it doesn&#x27;t seem like I&#x27;m trying to link to my own stuff, but you asked for anecdotes :-&#x2F;