Little evidence now supports the belief that life must take multiple ‘hard steps’ to proceed from its origin to technological civilization (Graham et al.,2024). Language, art, technology, and symbolic thought are not unique to Homo sapiens (Dediu & Levinson,2018; Hoffman et al.,2018; Lede...
Steve removed the floppy drive and all legacy ports on the first iMac - all it had was a CD/DVD drive and a couple of USB ports. People were furious at first...and then low and behold the entire industry moved in the same direction. The MacBook Air removes the ...
If you do a search for articles after the iMac was introduced, the vast majority are about the lack of a floppy drive. In addition, at the time, there really wasn’t a viable replacement for the floppy disk. CD-R’s were very much in their infancy (and very exp...