1/27/2005
slide 19
More Detail − Tipping Factors
1.Moore’s
“Law”
2.Ubiquity
of visual software
3.Web/Internet
for distribution/communication
4.Now
amateurs can play
5.Output
from instrumentation (e.g, Hubble)
6.Computation
of everything (new way of
looking at world)
7.Globalization
Xerox Parc’s Alto computer. Raster graphics, GUI, mouse (1970s)