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AtlasBarfedtoday at 1:28 PM1 replyview on HN

The PC revolution in the 1990s is one of the core drivers of inequality, where the rich took almost all of the dividends from the vast productivity gains from personal computers as the prime development of Moore's law rocketed computers from 66 MHz to over 8 gigahertz.

Judging by the gleeful texts of CEOs, collapsed hiring, internal policy changes and pushes, and the additional decades of centralized political control, it's clear this is going to be even worse..


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moosedevtoday at 2:36 PM

I must have missed the 8GHz CPU era.

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