Technological improvement, especially in software and consumer electronic devices, still reminds me of a hamster on a wheel mesmerized by motion.
I happen to have been an early adopter of quote-technology-unquote. In 1981 I had two home computers (but no washer and dryer). I lived in Columbus and was already a “distance learner” at Ohio State, i.e, I did my programming homework online from home. (Of course, as the late Neal Postman pointed out, books were the first distance learning technology in widespread use.)
I submitted my master’s thesis on pin-fed, microfine perforated paper, printed on my $500 Epson 9-pin bi-directional dot-matrix printer attached to my Atari 800 computer. In those days I also banked electronically with Huntington Bank via CompuServe. [Read more...]
It’s absolutely amazing how we all get to watch technology grow in every conceivable direction. I found some interesting predictions about the direction of future technology at pandalous. They’re here: http://www.pandalous.com/nodes/technology_what_are_you