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Tech Is Too Cheap to Meter

By Chris Anderson · Wired · June 2009
Tech Is Too Cheap to Meter
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"Rather than reserve computing power for core information processing, Kay used outrageous amounts of it for frivolous stuff like drawing cartoons on the screen. Those cartoons - icons, windows, pointers, and animations - became the graphical user interface"

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