The world of science continues
        to challenge our understanding of life

The Hubble telescope expands hugely
        our sense of the universe

THE RISE OF THE PERSONAL COMPUTER

My own first PC (purchased in December 1984) ... a very heavy "portable" Corona 8088 with two 5^1/4" floppy disc drives  (A and B) and a 9" black/white screen built in.  Cost me $2400 ... not cheap!  Also a dot-matrix printer.

But that was just the beginning of such matters!

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Paul Allen and Bill Gates with their MS-DOS program (It would take several more years before their world broke into mine!)

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The "Big Boys" now ... the 1990s!

Bill Gates

Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs' NeXTstation with monochrome monitor - 1990

Microsoft's Windows 3.0 - released on 22 May 1990

The "Pentium 1" Family (original Intel Pentium microprocessor was introduced in March of 1993)

The AMD Am486 DX-40 MHz - April 1993

Netscape Navigator 4.08 browser - released November 8, 1998

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Walter Mossberg and Kara Swisher interview Steve Jobs and Bill Gates at "D5: All Things Digital" conference in Carlsbad, California, in 2007

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THE WORLD OF SCIENCE CONTINUES TO CHALLENGE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF LIFE

Stephen Hawking - published in 1988 the science best-seller A Brief History of Time

Stephen Hawking - 1988

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THE HUBBLE TELESCOPE EXPANDS HUGELY OUR SENSE OF THE UNIVERSE

Cosmic cloud 6 trillion miles high and 7,000 light years away - as seen from the Hubble Space Telescope - 1995

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Go on to the next section:  Problems in the Rest of the World

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  Miles H. Hodges