Our Homes and Offices. Marks the Anniversary of a Digital Revolution
Western Mail › August 12, 2011
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W HEN two teenage cave-people who had dropped out of mammoth- hunting academy came home to announce they had harnessed the power of fire by rubbing sticks together their parents probably worried their offspring had been munching hallucinogenic berries.
And in Mesopotamia in 4000BC, the clever-clogs who tried to persuade his dad to try out a new invention called "the wheel" was probably told to shut up and carry home that night's dinner.See the full content of this document
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Our Homes and Offices. Marks the Anniversary of a Digital Revolution
Today, there are would-be whiz-kids knocking on the doors of venture capital firms as they try to kindle excitement about their creation. In a garage - maybe in Seattle or Llandrindod Wells - someone has the prototype of an invention as revolutionary as the calculator, Microsoft Windows or Facebook.
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