What will replace the iPhone 30 or 40 years from now? Check out this old Radio Shack ad (circa 1980!) featuring science fiction author Isaac Asimov and the TRS-80 Pocket Computer. (Hat tip: @pickover, via X.) More details about this remarkable artifact are available here, via Benj Edwards’s amazing website Vintage Computing & Gaming. File under: “the perennial gale of Creative Destruction“; see Joseph A. Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (London: Routledge, 1994 [1942]), pp. 82–83.
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