在40年前的今天，“个人电脑”诞生。1981年8月12日，国际商用机器公司(IBM)推出了型号为IBM5150的新款电脑，“个人电脑”这个新生市场从此诞生。它不断影响人类生活的各个方面，不断改变着世界。
I'm lucky to have lived through several eras of the ongoing revolution in computing.
I think you could argue that revolution is a bigger force shaping our world now than it ever has been.
Each era of the computing revolution has been defined by boundaries and constraints.
We overcome the constraints and push past the boundaries and we then forget the boundaries existed as we accelerate breakthroughs on the path to ubiquity.
The great author and futurist Arthur C. Clarke's Profiles of the Future contains a quote that I think embodies the spirit of exploration and discovery perfectly:
"The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible".
There are a number of big-picture developments that are going to change how we all approach technology in the future.
The end of Moore's law, the explosion of data, the evolution of the edge among them.
We've been able to take for granted that there's a PC on every desk and in every home for so long that we forget how impossible of a goal that must have seemed in the late 70s and early 80s.
Bill Gates wrote his first commercial program on an Intel 8008 microprocessor.
