In today’s digital world, it’s easy to merge personal and professional lives on a single device. We’re constantly balancing between managing personal tasks and fulfilling professional responsibilities ...

We named it the personal computer. Somewhere along the way, “personal” came to mean “logged into five accounts and re-setting the same preferences on every screen.” That gap, between devices we own ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tim Bajarin covers the tech industry’s impact on PC and CE markets. When I started using a computer in the mid-1970s, it was on a ...

The computer ads of the '70s and '80s imagine a future in which every kid is a hacker and girls skateboard to work on their PCs. From Edison To Apple, Innovation Is Always About Copies And Remixes ...

In 1989, I wrote a piece in one of my internationally syndicated columns about a mobile computing concept that was very modular. Back then, portable computers were pretty bulky and heavy and having to ...

In November 1970 a patent was granted for a device dubbed an “X-Y position indicator for a display system”. Amidst the plethora of patents granted that year, you would’ve been forgiven for not ...