The Decline of Computers as a General Purpose Technology

The general-purposeness of today?s computers comes from the technical breakthroughs of computer scientists like von Neumann and Turing, but also from a mutually-reinforcing economic cycle, where product improvement and market growth fuel each other. This article argues that technological and econo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Thompson, Neil, Spanuth, Svenja
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association for Computing Machinery 2025
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/158173