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Clever man! The current development of electric cars show that he was a futurist.Sir Clive Sinclair. Brought the computer into the home. RIP.
I often think about how massive the transformation in technology and the impact this has had on working and home life has been since the early 1990s (when I began my career). At that point we had clunky desktop PCs running word processing software like Wordperfect. Spreadsheets were not really used except for in finance. There were mostly no graphical user interfaces (like Windows). Programs came on floppy disks. We hardly used email and there was hardly an internet to speak of. If you wanted to read a book or academic paper you got a paper copy out of the library. That was only 30 years ago. Someone starting off in my career now would simply not recognize he way we worked and they would probably have no idea how to do anything, even thought the things we could do seem almost insignificant compared to what is possible now. I do actually feel blessed to have been in my teens/20s through the start of that transition (in a similar way that a kid who grew up as the Harry Potter books were coming out got to experience them in a way that no-one else could). Clive Sinclair was right in the sweet spot of this revolution.I remember in a former office, we all had desk tops but still wrote memos and letters for the secretary to type. This was only mid to late 80s
Just Sir Geoff and Sir Bobby left, sad that so many were hit by Alzheimer'sFormer Liverpool player and World Cup winner Roger Hunt passes away aged 83
George Cohen still with us.Just Sir Geoff and Sir Bobby left, sad that so many were hit by Alzheimer's