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It's been 40 years and no one's made pretty things like them yet.



Can you give some examples? Certainly good ideas that nobody has replicated for decades would be valuable avenues worth pursuing.


The entire concept of what a “computer” is in people’s minds comes from Steve Jobs’ evangelism of these ideas. While you can be certain that the transistor would have been invented by someone if not Shockley, computing would be very different (perhaps better, perhaps not) without Jobs.




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