Q&A: Hacker Historian George Dyson Sits Down With Wired's Kevin Kelly | Wired Magazine | Wired.com: Dyson: Yes, we had clay tablets, counting pebbles, the abacus, ledgers, and punch cards. Writing and retrieving numbers isn’t new. But the computer accelerated information processing to the speed of light. That velocity fundamentally changed everything.
Wired: So how did this parallel light-speed universe begin?