One of the reasons I loved Creative Computing, when it was still being published, was the magazine's fearlessness of the future. Whatever would come, technologically speaking, we would not only find a way to deal with it but prosper from it. It was okay to be cautionary -- in fact, it was a good idea to be cautionary -- but it was just as good to be enthusiastic.
I had great fun reading the magazine back in its heyday, and I had one blast from the past after another reading through the archived texts of the magazine at the Atari Archives site. Consider this piece, published in (I think) 1979 or so, which essentially predicates portable computing as we know it today. If anything, we've so far surpassed what was considered "possible" then that it's downright scary.
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