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If all goes according to plan, "columbia," this nation's first space shuttle, will fly like a skylark next march. >> if the shuttle program works the way it's designed to, it will be a technological feat marveling that of the trip to the moon. >> the space shuttle had new systems, new technology. the primary thing is the fly by wire system. you don't have pulleys and cables, it's all done by electronics. all the commands go through a computer. >> built as the world's first reusable spaceship, one that would commute to space carrying scientists and satellites. >> the most important thing was th...

This is a portable cellular phone. you'll be able to take this to 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 "pleas...

They were working on all these crazy, out-there ideas which included the mouse, overlapping windows and fonts and graphics on a computer screen. just to see if they could do it. >> steve jobs hears about some of this work going on at this lab, and he wants a look. >> xerox park was an innovation place, apple was an innovation place. steve was very visual. and he could see right away the graphic interface was different and more communicative than anything he'd seen before. he knew that it was effective, but was affecting him. >> jobs realizes, this is the future of computing. this is a whole di...

Random access mobile, portable and cheap started to catch on. >> 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 part of our lives. it's where our work and entertainment and, you know, 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. >> techn...

The white collar workforce, less than 5% now use computers, mostly because of their complexity. macintosh is designed for simplicity. using a palm-sized unit called a mouse. >> it was the first time that a machine was personal, it was simple, it was friendly. >> it took the computer out of the exclusive domain of geeks and nerds and people who had memorized the commands and put it on the desk of everybody. untrained, nontechnical people. >> stores around the country put them on sale today, and analysts say it's a good bet that macintosh could soon be the biggest apple of the industry's eye. >>...