What made personal computers revolutionary was autonomy · Proposed air date:
Dr. Dave remembers the personal-computer revolution as a transfer of authority from the mainframe room to the person doing the work. He then returns to a skill from his own career, building integrated Lotus and Excel systems for million-dollar and international businesses, to explore whether modern convenience can coexist with locally controlled data and the ability to keep working independently.
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Proposed recording date: 2013-03-16. The exact broadcast date may differ.
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