Recently I was working on a project, and I ran across this article: [Warning: Explicative language involved]
http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2006/11/two_simple_word.html And I started thinking about what exactly meets that criteria of: [Explicative Language] Cool? In the field of computers, or the application of computers what would really get you going? As it says in the article: "I don’t want their reaction to be a measured, rational, dispassionate analysis of why the product is better than the alternatives, how the cost is more reasonable, feature set more complete, UI more AJAXified. I don’t want them to pause to analyze the boring feature comparison chart on the back of the box." "I want that pure sense of wonder, that kid-at-airshow-seeing-an-F16on-afterburners-rip-by-so-close-it-makes-your-soul-shake reaction, that caress-the-new-Blackberry-until-your-friends-start-to-question-your-sanity experience. I want an irrational level of sheer, unfiltered, borderline delusional joy." So what type of computer products, services, capabilities, would make you feel that way? I had a couple to start us off: F***king cool to me is pulling the plug on my server and everything keeps working. Better yet, the whole power panel goes out and my wireless PDA still has its web server getting fed data. F***king cool to me was hearing about the "follow-me" computing at DEC in Cambridge where the "active badges" (now replaced by Blue tooth phones) allowed people's phone calls, instant messaging, data files, etc. follow them around as they moved. F***king cool was the first time I saw wearable computers with heads up displays that I could do computing everywhere. F***king cool was the old "three tier client/server computing where John Donovan would have his software people make a client's application overnight to the client's specification. F***king cool was always taking a slow-running job and making it work 100 times faster, if not 10,000 times faster F***king cool are gumstick computers, so small that they resemble a stick of wriggly's gum. Asterisk is F***king cool, it just is. It isn't just the application, it is the fact that you can modify it to meet different needs. Wireless networking is really F***king cool. I can go out on my lawn, down by the pond and still keep working. StarTrek "workstations" were always F***king cool. Sure, you had your personal communicator, but Seven-of-nine also had "navigation" where all the tools for navigating were there. "Bones" had his tricorder and sprays, but he also had his "Workstation" in sickbay. The Bridge was a series of workstations. You never saw Spock running over to the helm when he wanted data, he always was at his "science officer's station". Real *workstation*s (not stupid PCs) are F***king cool. They have the tools that help you do your work. It would be really F***king cool to be able to be any place I want to be and still have it like I was sitting at my desk. Telephone, computing, access to data, people finding me when they need me, all at a price I can afford. So what do *YOU* think would be F***king cool? md _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
