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Sign into your accountReal Estate Technology: PCs Are Going Away
August 16 2011
This article, authored by Harper Thorpe, comes to us from the Core Logic Broker Café blog, "Broker Buzz."
I was interested to see a recent article in USA Today that indicated that PCs are going the way of the typewriter. After a 30 year run, the end may well be in sight. Since I work with a company that delivers all of its services through a web browser, this clearly is an inflection point in history.
Interestingly enough, the USA Today article was quoting Mark Dean—one of the guys that has spent his career at IBM and was on the team that helped to design the PC. He holds three of the 9 patents for the original IBM PC. August 12th 2011 marks the 30th Anniversary of the personal computer. Given that I have been in the high-tech industry for those 30 years, it seems like yesterday.
Oddly, technology that existed before the PC is the technology that will empower the future of computing. In the early days, this technology was referred to as mainframe computing. Today, the current technology is essentially a bunch of modern mainframe computers (now called servers) connected together via high-speed networks serving-up the Internet, and the result is the modern cloud computing model.