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L51-2:
Predicting the future
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It can properly be described as the first 'home computer'
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and it pointed the way to the future. This was followed, at
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the end of the 1970s, by a machine called an Apple.
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In the early 1980s, the computer giant, IBM produced the
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world's first Personal Computer. This ran on an 'operating
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system' called DOS, produced by a then small company
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named Microsoft. The IBM Personal Computer was widely
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copied. From those humble beginnings, we have seen the
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development of the user-friendly home computers and
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multimedia machines which are in common use today.
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Considering how recent these developments are, it is even
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more remarkable that as long ago as the 1960s, an
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Englishman, Leon Bagrit, was able to predict some of the
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uses of computers which we know today. Bagrit dismissed
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the idea that computers would learn to 'think' for
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themselves and would 'rule the world', which people liked to
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believe in those days.
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