Phenomenoumena

Looking Back on the Computer of the Future (Part 1 of 2)


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In this episode, we go on a 1980s-90s cyberpunk adventure, starting with world’s-first translations from Japanese to English of excerpts from a book by Susumu Hirasawa. We explore the reality underneath the marketing in the home computing war of the era, discussing Douglas Engelbart and the Mother of all Demos, Halt and Catch Fire, the Stanford Research Institute, Xerox PARC and much more, all while taking an in-depth look back at the machine that was the computer of the future - the famed Amiga.

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