Gutenberg on Broadway
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Observations from the arrival of the Information Age.\\n\\n
I had a part time job at the ComputerLand store on West Broadway in Vancouver, British Columbia in the early 1980s. Mostly it was to teach an introductory programming course in the BASIC computer language on Saturday mornings. Ironically, it was one of the few things for which you bought a computer back then\\u200a\\u2014\\u200ato learn how to program them. The store manager didn\\u2019t see any point in sending me home after the morning class ended and had me stooge around on the sales floor instead. I was typically assigned the enthusiasts who would, without fail, walk in and want to bend the ear of a so-called expert. Lacking any real experts, I was provided in their stead...
\\n\\nListen to the rest by clicking the play button, above. The text version of this essay can be found on Medium where it was published contemporaneously. (image: IBM Canada\\u2019s King Street Datacentre circa 1964. Photograph by George Dunbar, courtesy of International Business Machines Corporation, \\xa9International Business Machines Corporation.)
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