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> On a computer the size and weight of a paper notebook, with all day battery life, a display whose color quality/resolution/refresh rate were utterly unimaginable 33 years ago

Those were completely imaginable 30 years ago to anybody with a physics background. It was just a matter of time before transistors shrank down to the nm range (of course with the enormous amounts of engineering work that made it possible, but there was no physical reason it couldn't be done).



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