http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-vcErOPofQ
Grace Hopper was one of those people that never liked to retire, so she kept on working right through her life.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/dec/09/grace-hopper-google-doodle-cobol-computer-language
In the 1940s & 1950s several people just considered computers to be part electronic adding_machine & part typewriter. However, once digital memory started to expand, computers really took off.
By the late 1950s, TV was starting to become commonplace, along with the telephone some decades earlier. However, most people still had no concept of being able to sit at a desk with something like a TV screen, landline telephone & typewriter.
As telecommunications gradually evolved through the 1960s to the 1990s many new possibilities opened up. Digital_telephones_and_voice_over_IP
By the early 1990s things were off & running.
By the mid 1990s Internet#Search_engines really started to take off. Especially after 2000.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet#Mobile_phones_and_the_Internet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_replacement_computer,
http://www.digitaltrends.com/best-desktop-replacement-laptops,
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Top-10-Desktop-Replacement-Laptops.17035.0.html,
http://www.pcworld.com/product/collection/1659/top-10-power-laptops.html,
http://reviews.cnet.com/best-desktop-replacements
So in this day & age a person can have a pocket computer, otherwise known as a smart phone. A tablet, laptop & desktop for whatever they need to do, it all becomes part of the collection of choices.
http://www.computershopper.com/laptops/desktop-replacement-laptops/desktop-replacement-laptops-more-than-7-pounds
