I was thinking about technology, brought on by Steve Jobs’s death. I have this sort of love/hate thing with Apple. I really love the hardware. I love Macs, even old Macs. I hate the Apple cult, who feel that all Mac operating systems are perfect, until the next one comes out. Reading the articles about Jobs, it reminds you of the impressive amount of technology that he helped create in his lifetime. What a vision! When you think of the technology that Microsoft created, there’s no comparison. I’d rather live in the world of Apple products.
In my lifetime, we’ve gone from tubes to transistors, rotary phones to computer-like phones, black and white tvs to 3-D. It’s an incredible transition and one that has affected our society and our world in so many ways. I watched “Pirates of Silicon Valley” last night for the first time. When Bill Gates goes into the Apple office and is looking at the artwork, my first thought was for him to take out his cell phone and take a picture of it. It’s what we would do now. Isn’t it an amazing thing, to walk around with a tiny device that you can make calls on, take pictures from and connect to the internet with? It truly seems like magic. The downside is the distance it can make between people, where we spend more time interacting with devices than we do with other people. People are the part of life that really matters. Let’s not forget that.
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