Why do I so want to call Mike "Rush" here?
While I do greatly appreciate your help with my cell phone's
background screen, I have found you in the past a bit more ego
involved then Betty has ever shown. Actually it doesn't really bother
me that much. I realize we all have big egos. Some must show it more
then others.
As to your comment about what technology will be here in a decade,
two decades, longer... I think we all have a pretty good idea of where
it's going. Sure there will be occasional break throughs(sp) that will
branch us off here and there, but for the most part? It's pretty easy
to predict. Actually, in my lifetime things have gone much slower then
most predicted. These foresighted prognosticators usually seem to
forget to add a variable into the equation. That would be cost and
where the public thinks it should be spending it's money. The health
care debate is a perfect example.
Sure, there will be small things along the way that lurch us forward
that may or may not have been predicted, but for the most part, where
we're going is pretty easy to see.
Jeff Miles
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On Nov 20, 2009, at 10:55 PM, mike wrote:
A little less of your ego and you might actually consider what I'm
saying.
We, you and I have no idea what technology will be here in a decade,
two
decades, longer..it is presumptuous to assume you are just smarter
than the
previous generations and will just grok it.
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 11:25 PM, b_s-wilk <b1sun...@yahoo.es> wrote:
mike escribió:
I get the feeling Betty is that farmer on the side of the road 100
years
ago
ridiculing his neighbor for using a fancy tractor with one of those
engines
to plow his field instead of the tried and true mule or team of
horses.
Sure the next few years...decade...the horse was pretty reliable,
but it
didn't take long before that farmer was left behind still crowing
about
how
bad those jalopies were.
I think back to teaching my great uncle the computer basics, a man
with
two doctorates, a world traveler, decorated officer in WW2,
composer...friend to several presidents. The computer was just
beyond
him...technology had grown from his grasp of the age he was born
in. Will
we be like that when our children or grand children are running
around
with
the newest tech?
Hej sonny boy. Old folks in your great uncle's generation--and
older--invented computers.
I studied programming long before PCs. I've worked for companies
via the
Internet and never met any other employees in person. My brother
and I built
a mechanical computer as a school project [after the 5 foot slide
rule was
done]. There are sensible uses for technology, fun things to do,
expensive
business applications, and pie-in-the-sky geek fantasies.
It makes sense to use redundant remote storage for business. It's
overkill
for an individual to store all personal files remotely. It's also
stupid.
Why? The Internet isn't everywhere, so your files are locked away
in the
"cloud" until you can get them. I store duplicates of important
files on the
Internet for when we're traveling. Most of the time I can't access
them from
our remote locations, so I have to carry cryptic info with me.
Put your imagination to work on something more useful. Why not
write some
viruses? That's a fun hobby.
Betty
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