I wonder how well and fast some innovations penetrate society. For example, I guess you can assume everyone who uses a PC these days knows how to use a mouse. Remembering Windows 2.0, that was not something you could assume. (The first PC's FSA provided had Windows 2.0 on them.) So maybe it took 10 years or so for us to convert to a Windows WYSIWYG environment? But how about sneakier stuff, the bells and whistles software types add on. Does anyone use everything in Word? How about Google Maps?
The reason I ask is I just realized this week that the Street View in Google Maps could be used to see where in Ireland my great grandfather lived before he emigrated to the US in the 1820s. Apparently Google hasn't done Germany yet.
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