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Capable of generating artistic endeavors and not just number-crunching business things. >> is there anything that you'd like to see? >> we'd love to have it in a book right now, you know, about this size, but that's technically impossible. >> steve's like, i want to make a friendly computer, a computer that comes from a different kind of place, that owes its inspiration to people who are thoughtful and creative and human and humane. >> morning, chris. this is an experimental office system of the xerox research center in palo alto, california. >> anything else? what about flowers? my anniversar...

Any american city and call virtually any place in the world, and its maker, motorola, says a smaller version than this will be on the market next year. >> your first cell phones look like soviet army field telephones. these huge lunch boxes you hold up to your head. >> this is just the birth of this industry. all inventions start out in a very rough state. whether it's computers or cell phones. it took a while to refine them and make them into something that all of us use. >> you look at the bottom of your screen, it says "please press return" or -- >> the computer has become a national mania,...

You use the automatic bank telling machines? >> sure. >> so life is already seducing you into learning this stuff. it's not going to happen at once and it's certainly not a 1984-ish vision at all. it's just going to be very gradual and very human and will seduce you into learning how to use it. >> random access memory is internal memory built inside of this computer. >> these new computers were rough, big, ugly, difficult to use inventions when they first came out. >> it would crash and you would have to figure out what to do. it would not always create the right results. so it really did take...

>> different ways to run a business. different ways to communicate with your friends. different ways to experience virtual worlds. i don't think we've ever seen a decade like that, frankly. >> there was realization this kind of technology was going to be a part of our lives. it's where our work and entertainment and all of that is going to reside. >> i believe that what is happening today is truly a revolution in the deepest sense of the word, that 30 or 40 years from now it's going to be hard to recognize the way we live. >> technology can make our life better. and technology means that anyth...

The first one to put a basic on the microcomputer that caused me to drop out. >> if you don't have one, you will be amazed what these little gadgets can do. >> the idea was that ordinary people might have a use for computers. now, it took a while to figure out what those uses might be. >> the main thing was spreadsheets and word processing. the computer was the best typewriter you could ever have. it gave you a new way to write. you could change things around. and check your spelling. it would always look perfect. >> my dad had the large ledger sheets, done them all by hand, and i remember tak...