BIG IRON: BACK IN A BIG WAY

摘要

Remember mainframe computers? For 30 years they dominated technological life—and society's imagination. From Desk Set to 2001: A Space Odyssey, the giant computer served as a metaphor for all that was empowering—and forbidding—in the digital revolution. Mainframes, or what we now call supercomputers, symbolized the triumph of science and statistics, the conquest of space, the search for a single, universal solution to every question.