computer age

Even as a youth of the computer age, I learned so much and found endless value in Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood reruns, classical-music broadcasts, and specialized podcasts like Microphone Check.

Silicon semiconductors have become the 'oil' of the computer age, which was also demonstrated recently by the chip shortage crisis.

The economist Robert Solow famously said in 1987, “You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.”

Portable computers and other electronics, now mandatory for learning, are a major driver behind these soaring figures, a notion that would have been inconceivable at the dawn of the computer age in 1980.

Featured in “Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952-1982,” the illuminating recent Los Angeles County Museum of Art exhibition, is Cage’s “HPSCHD,” from 1969.