[opendtv] Re: Apple Flux Flow
- From: Albert Manfredi <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2013 19:15:07 -0500
Speaking of old stuff, isn't it funny how any home computer hardware in that
ivory color automatically looks dated now?
As to making predictions of future technology:
Today on Aljazeera English they showed a film clip of a Walter Cronkite news
program, back in the 1960s. Cronkite was explaining what gadgets reporters and
others would be using in the future. He showed telephones that didn't look like
telephones, e.g. with small spherical mouthpiece. He showed a machine that may
as well have been a PC with Skype running on it, where two people could talk
and see each other on the screen. He showed a machine that allowed you to view
a newspaper on a screen, and then to print it out if you felt like it (like a
.pdf file on a PC). And he finally said, approximately, "Soon instead of people
having to go to work, the work will come to them."
What's the point of this missive?
The point is, it wasn't long ago that people were allowed to make smart
predictions on their own. Whereas today, people feel compelled to attribute any
future-think to Apple. Why the compulsion exists baffles me completely, but
then again, isn't that what religious fervor has always looked like?
Bert
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