Technology Is A Wonderful Thing - Isn't It?

[ColinJ]

You read Vannevar Bush's paper "As we May Think" published in the Atlantic Monthly June 1945 before repackaging his ideas didn't you?

He predicted the Internet, Wifi, PDAs multimedia, Wiki, helmet cams, digital photography, and hypertext abeit in different guises and sometimes in anogue form. The paper is worth reading if only to be able to recognise the massive leap in technological capability since the end of WWII

No, I somehow missed that one but ... I was given a copy of the 1945 issue of Wireless World in which Arthur C. Clarke put forward the idea of geostationary satellites. I read it and then binned it ... Damn - that would probably be worth a lot now!

 

[MontyVeda]

The recording.technology.these days is fantastic, kids have no.idea how good they.have it.

No longer does one need rich parents to achieve more than a ropey demo.

The interweb has also rendered all my reference books useless... and the ability to get my hands on almost any old tv show i can think of is excellent... I'm currently downloading The Water Margin for my festive TV viewing

I've so far avoided the pub banter killing smart phone though.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Like Facebook???

I'm on that and find their 'system' overloads me with 'comments' made by people I've never heard of and adverts for things I don't need or want. I know I can 'choose' what I get but it seems a very imprecise art to get what I do want plus the rubbish or next to nothing. I feel their privacy tools are akin to performing a cornea transplant with a two handed sword.

It can be a bit overloading at times, I'll give you that one, I admit

 

[Profpointy]

It mostly pi**es me off to be fair.

Why cant all pc's, tablets, phones just use a bloody standard.

Each have their own little agendas grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Yeah, standrds are great - let's have more of 'em !