A look at three relics of a not-quite-bygone era. In picture-listicle form.
As technologists, we’re constantly gulping from the bleeding-edge firehose: new versions, new standards, new frameworks, new paradigms. This is largely a good thing. Most advances offer a tangible improvement over the status quo. Specialization (e.g. recent Bachelors Degrees in AI) speeds the advance of promising fields, it’s a future of exciting possibility. So long as our eager technology can be guided by effective policy.