Time-sharing

Modern · Computation · 1959

TL;DR

Time-sharing - requires enrichment with adjacent possible narrative

Time-sharing - requires enrichment

What Had To Exist First

Preceding Inventions

Stored-program computer

What This Enabled

Inventions that became possible because of Time-sharing:

Packet switching Email Portable operating system

Biological Patterns

Mechanisms that explain how this invention emerged and spread:

Niche Construction

Related Inventions

Stored-program computer Packet switching Portable operating system Email

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Computing

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