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Issue 55: Personal Computing Paves the Way

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Sometimes, a moment happens not instantaneously, but over many seasons. Looked back on with the blessing of hindsight, there exists a discrete before and after the moment, but for those who lived it, the moment may have had a very long "during" period. Those who live in the "during" find themselves impatient, looking to be on the other side of the event, anxiously waiting for "now" to be "history". They want to live to see the thing complete. They want it to be done. For when "now" becomes history, there is a sense of peace of mind, a complete loop, a chord that resolves into something. History cannot be told while it is happening, therefore, not only because the people involved are too busy or too confused to puzzle it out, but because what is happening can’t be made sense of until its implications have been resolved. -- Everything Is Obvious: *Once You Know the Answer The curse of those who live and breathe is the task of trying to make sense of what will be – while it is – before it

< Previous Issue Dear Reader, Sometimes, a moment happens not instantaneously, but over many seasons. Looked back on with the blessing of hindsight, there exists a discrete before and after the moment, but for those who lived it, the moment may have had a very long "during" period. Those who live in the "during" find themselves impatient, looking to be on the other side of the event, anxiously waiting for "now" to be "history". They want to live to see the thing complete. They want it to be done. For when "now" becomes history, there is a sense of peace of mind, a complete loop, a chord that r

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