It was inevitable as it was obvious. An evening walk with my grandfather. He had spent the past fifty years working with technologies and, given as it was 2074, the technology changes he had witnessed could only be described as dramatic. Walking from his office I caught a glimpse of framed emails he had kept as artifacts from his earliest days in IT; a rare sighting by any measure. As a new hire fresh from college, he had joined HPE, as it was called in those years. Following a series of mergers followed by a number of spin-offs, it was hard for me to visualize what it must have been like back then. “What you think of today as technology didn’t exist back then but circumstances changed and ambitions exploded,” he said. “I recall clearly when individuals wrestled total control of tech away from state-supported institutions as the idea governments could foster any level of cooperation needed to break through barriers.” Quickly revisiting the past and stories that I’ve heard before,...
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