The PC era is dying. Welcome to the collective computer era 

What happens when you take the personal out of the personal computer? In an age of AI as metered utility and OpenClaw rigs jacked into ChatGPT or Claude, we’re about to find out.

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 “The purpose of computers is human freedom.”

– Ted Nelson, Computer Lib/Dream Machines (1974)

The computer is as emblematic of the American dream as the automobile. Perhaps it’s only natural that Apple, HP, Adobe, Google, and Amazon were each launched out of a garage. 

It was inside the garage that the modern era of personal computers was born, where anyone could own the power to calculate........

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