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I was there in 1969 and on. Professional computer scientists (electrical engineers at that time) ridiculed personal computers and those who used them. They weren't taken seriously enough to be considered a threat. This was especially true of UNIX users. I don't think that these folks were even aware of the growth of personal computer use until it had "taken over the world." If there is an implication for the ChatGPT issue today, it might be that the truly revolutionary changes will largely remain out of sight until they are a fait accompli.

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To be fair to the Unix people, almost everyone got disruptive technologies like PCs wrong, especially back then. PCs actually were garbage for the tasks that people used minis and mainframes for... but they enabled different tasks.