computer age

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“You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics,” Robert Solow, a Nobel laureate in economics, said in 1987.

From Barron's

That happened at the onset of the personal computer age, when a clutch of brilliant young scientists and engineers employed by Xerox at its Palo Alto Research Center, the legendary PARC, invented the personal computer.

From Los Angeles Times

Dangerous androids have played influential roles throughout film and pop culture history, especially recently, as the rapid advancements of the computer age have made robot-apocalypse scenarios feel more and more plausible.

From New York Times

But the challenges posed by the computer age were only starting.

From Washington Post

Stephens suddenly found himself on the leading edge of the computer age — as well as the cutting edge of a slowly desegregating federal bureaucracy.

From Washington Post