Anyways,
>>1, please listen to me. That it's really related to this thread.
Yesterday I found some of my father's old magazines. There was a 1986 computer magazine. Talked about a newfangled printer that cost as much as car. Ads for computers displayed the price for bundles with monochrome displays in large type, with the price for the color display in small type.
Some editorial lamented that software was not patentable in my country. The author was earnestly thinking that computing would never outgrow the professional and hobby markets to become ubiquitous unless we urgently enacted some patent reform.
Reminded me that every belief we hold as self-evident about IT today will be laughable in 25 years.
What this all really means, though, is that
actually I'm not sure what it means, I just felt like sharing my cool story!