Did you ever think how close we came to never having the things we take for granted today?
If history had pulled a different card from the deck 50 years ago:
How would the events of the last half century be changed?
Would we be happier today?
Would we have AI?
In today’s episode we have a fascinating and fun conversation about an alternative timeline:
How different would U.S. history be if we never had any personal computers?
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In this episode we’re getting into:
The origin of the personal computer in our actual history.
Why personal computing was likely in our real timeline.
Why the PC Industry developed the way it actually did for us.
Then we look at what would have been different if the PC had never been commercialized.
We unpack our alternative timeline for the last half century of U.S. history:
Where did the 1980s Office Revolution go?
What does the Consumer Internet look like?
Startups and a Dot-Com Boom?
A Different Labor Market?
Is the alternative timeline’s 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic better or worse than the real one?
Do we still have AI in a world without personal computers?
We think you’ll enjoy the conversation. Let us know.
About this podcast:
A person wrote, researched, and fact-checked the script with AI-assistance.
Podcast voices were generated by AI.
