Sure, but it's hard to compare that to the home computer era, we were the first generation with a computer of our own, and grown-ups had literally no clue. The systems where very limited and the gaps had to be filled by the imagination. It was a magic time in history that won't return.

> It was a magic time in history that won't return.

That is such a true and sad realization..

I guess it applies to other fields of technology which have rapid progress at the start and there's a lot of room to explore and few visible boundaries.

Like seafaring. When people first invented boats they had literally the entire world made open to them, that they could previously only imagine.

Personal computers were like the invention of seafaring for the mind.

I guess the next frontier like that is space, where literally the entire universe is waiting to be discovered. :)