[opendtv] Re: Apple Flux Flow
- From: "TLM" <TLM@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2013 18:39:29 -0800
Dunno. I had a course in college called "The Religions of Man". Hinduism,
Buddhism and the Tao seemed rather fervorless...
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Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2013 4:15 PM
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Subject: [opendtv] Re: Apple Flux Flow
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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