In the book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, the author talks about the point in history when societies were no longer isolated from each other. E.g. they knew of and traded with others.
Computing is similar. We could think of a single connected computer system now.
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There are labels that make technology ideas sound more exciting. For example, 'augmented intelligence' was used early in the history of computing.
(A pocket calculator would qualify but it's less cool.)
Is there a good term for this phenomenon? It's hype that inspired projects.
I'm experimenting with Atuin for searching my terminal history: https://atuin.sh/
Previously I'd just used fzf to find items, which does work nicely. Occasionally I *really* want to search "commands which were run in this directory" though, which Atuin offers.
