The first computer I touched, and I'm not that old, had 1kb RAM (ZX81) so the pico is a supercomputer next to that. It has all happened gradually but in a way I feel a little bit sorry for the whippersnappers that haven't experienced the incredible advancements. Looking back is different to remembering how one looked forward and how the actuality beat one's wildest dreams.

There are still older people than me who experienced an even steeper curve but I hope that my daughter will enjoy the same thing - to live in a massively better world than the one she started in.

It's not better in the human ways - still lots of fighting and evil - but it's great to be able to stay in touch with one's family over huge distances and to be able to make boredom vanish at the touch of a button, to want to fix something and instantly get 100 videos of how to do it. To find some bit of code extremely boring to write and to get a machine to write it.