If you see magazines, articles, ads and TV shows from the 1980s (there are lots on YouTube and a fun rabbit hole, like the BBC Archive), the general promise was "Computers can do anything, if you program them."

Well, nobody could figure out how to program them. Except the few outcasts like us who went on to suffer for the rest of our lives for it :')

With phones & LLMs this is the closest we have come to that original promise of a computer in every home and everyone being able to do anything with it, that isn't pre-dictated by corporations and their apps:

Ideally ChatGPT etc should be able to create interactive apps on the fly on iPhone etc. Imagine having a specific need and just being able to say it and get an app right away just for you on your device.