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

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.

From Seattle Times

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.

From Los Angeles Times

There were other problems that she inherited as well, including a certain backwardness in adapting to the computer age and a failure to adjust census taking to demographic changes like the proliferation of nontraditional households.

From New York Times

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