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Alma Thomas was born during the horse and buggy days of the end of the 19th century, and raised under Jim Crow laws. By the end of her life, in 1978, she had been the first black woman to be given a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art, with works inspired by the possibilities of space travel.
"Today not only can our great sciences send astronauts to and from the Moon to photograph its surface and bring back samples of rocks and other materials, but through the medium of colour television all can see and experience the thrill of these adventures. These phenomena set my creativity in motion."
(Alma Thomas, an incandescent pioneer, New York Times, Aug 4 2016)
If you look at our current time and technologies, after a little thought, what makes you feel amazed about, and hopeful, curious for, the future?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by jelizondo on Monday August 22 2016, @05:53AM
¡Oh! Those memories... imagine Streisand...
Can it be that it was all so simple then?
Or has time re-written every line?
I remember watching Apollo 11 launch on TV, but maybe it was some other launch. I was a bit younger than you, so I perhaps misremember exactly what I saw on TV that morning, but I suspect it was Apollo 11.
I also started on a TRS-80 (model II) but really learned programming on a VIC 20, 6502 assembly and then on to other, bigger stuff, like an HP 250 minicomputer, then an HP 832, Unix V, SCO Unix (before they became evil), Netware but by the time Windows NT came to dominate the server market I was very much onto other stuff.
Mem'ries, may be beautiful and yet
What's too painful to remember
We simply choose to forget
Cheers! To life and health!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22 2016, @06:06AM
Yep, Doctor Who rewrote Neil Armstrong's famous quote to include a subliminal alien message, and made Dick Nixon a flaming homophobe. History will never be the same. The times they are a changing.