A good in depth read for the paranoid interneters in all of us…
Netflix of the Future
Perspective
How can two individuals have completely different views of the same situation and neither one of them is right or wrong? It’s all about individual perception. The willingness to see and understand the other side of the coin can be difficult at times. Sometimes it’s hard to comprehend ones point of view. It’s not because of stubbornness or the need to be “right”, but rather the difficulty in seeing where others are coming from. Sometimes its situational. Other times it’s intellectual.
What are your thoughts or “point of view” on the topic? Leave a comment below.
What’s old is new…
It’s the 1970’s all over again. Too bad that since I got my first “smartphone” in 2006 it was never about the actual phone. That was always an afterthought.
Future Now
Amazon is starting it’s own “Planet Express” lol
Security Alert
This is so true. It’s a study in convenience vs privacy in tech today.
The History of PowerPoint
Here’s an interesting read on the history of PowerPoint.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/cyberspace/the-improbable-origins-of-powerpoint
Ridding myself of the Gevil influence…
1 app and service at a time on my way to a purely YouTube only Google account… For now Voice and YouTube will remain.
Future Now
What’s old is new…
Everyone at work has been going crazy over a coworkers recent upgrade, they upgraded to their first smartphone from a candy bar slider dumb phone. They went right for it and picked up a Galaxy Note 8. Listening to all the ooo’s and ahhh’s gets me laughing inside everytime.
I think to back to 2003 to when I got my first device that was what a modern smartphone would become, a big touch screen and the like (Dell Axim x5). 3 years later I would get my first device with a cellular radio built in (Palm Treo 700w). Mind you this was at a time when in order to be cool you had to have a Motorola Razr flip phone or an LG Chocolate. Or if you were a hipster you had a T-Mobile Sidekick. Remember those? People ooo’d and ahhh’d over how I had a “little pen” and could write in cursive on the screen and it would translate to text. Or how I had special weighted styli that had actual ballpoint pens in the opposite end. Or how my calendar appointments were read out loud to me. Most peoples reactions were “it’s a PC!” Of course it was. It even said “Pocket PC” on many of them. There were a few shortsighted people who said “I have a PC at home, why would I want one in my pocket?”
Ironically I’ve returned to the “pc as a phone” style device. In fact, my next device upgrade is marketed and sold as a 3 in 1 PC that maintains native calling and texting, although it heavily promotes Skype, which is what I use for all of my voice calls. The flipside to this is that many Android phones are going with the “phone as a pc” mantra. Both are converging on the same idea, just taking different paths to get there. What’s old is new and I’ve come full circle.
So which do you prefer? A mobile PC with calling capabilities? Or do you prefer a phone with PC capabilities? Leave a comment with your thoughts.
Small talk 