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Reflections on Technology
Dec. 28th, 2011 11:44 amTalking with my oldest friend this morning via email, he mentioned that he's still running an accounting system that he wrote 25 years ago in FoxBase. I'm the one who turned him on to FB, which was the crux of the conversation. While writing my reply, I had the following observation:
"It's really amazing to look at my (messy) office: BluTooth keyboard and trackpad, magnetic-coupled power on my (closed) laptop, 23" LCD monitor, WiFi color laser printer, a telephone that has 64 gig of memory plus a video camera plus a still camera plus it plays music plus you can run pre-written programs on it, and two dead Palm Pilots. Plus a 3 terabyte external hard drive for backups. Talk about something that was absolutely and in all ways inconceivable 25 years ago.
I meant to add "This word I keep using, I think it means what I think it means." but forgot to.
"It's really amazing to look at my (messy) office: BluTooth keyboard and trackpad, magnetic-coupled power on my (closed) laptop, 23" LCD monitor, WiFi color laser printer, a telephone that has 64 gig of memory plus a video camera plus a still camera plus it plays music plus you can run pre-written programs on it, and two dead Palm Pilots. Plus a 3 terabyte external hard drive for backups. Talk about something that was absolutely and in all ways inconceivable 25 years ago.
I meant to add "This word I keep using, I think it means what I think it means." but forgot to.
