Computer gaming really has grown up. Classic arcade title Pong turns 40 this week. The first commercially successful video game in history, Pong arrived in U.S. arcades on Nov. 29, 1972, and ...
Tomorrow's World investigates computer fraud, "the crime of the future". The first defence against computer fraud is to stop stocking cigarettes in the canteen. BBC Archive: Originally broadcast on 28 ...
*The famous, and amazingly prescient, Dynabook essay. Those kids with the entirely unremarkable iPads there? Those would be Alan Kay's forty-year-old imaginary ...
There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...
Archive film showing possibly the first example of digital rendering, made by Pixar co-founders Ed Catmull and Fred Parke in 1972, was stumbled upon by the son of Robert B Ingebretsen, who also set up ...
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