A couple of days ago someone asked me about buying a new computer. How big should it be, how much will it cost, and so on? I replied that it depended on the use of it. Will you use it to play games, surf the Internet, do complicated calculation, all of this has to be consider, not unlike buying a car, really! He told me that the one he had contracted a virus and that nothing worked anymore and it was old anyways. I pointed him in the direction of our local computer whiz shop and told him that I used my old computers on our LCD’s so that we can surf the net, watch movies, or play music from our main computer through the system. He asked if that worked on old television, now I knew what he meant when he said his computer was old!
Considering that the Apple computer (below) came out in 1995, and that the IPad is about 3 years old…how old can a computer really be? What did we do prior to 1995? How did we communicate? How did we find our way around on a trip? Thinking about it makes me realize how fast we are travelling, and how fast products are evolving, and where will it be in 5 years?
Given the above, how does a small business compete? How do they get more clients? What does the future bring for them? Last week I saw a lady at the bank paying all of her monthly bills with the teller one by one! Can you imagine? I can’t even imagine the last time I wrote a check!
Here’s a few things that my Grandson will never see or know about, black and white TV’s, with NO remote control. A night without a PlayStation or other similar game, rabbit ears on the TV, or SOS pads for those antennas that never worked. A day without telephones, or cell phones, a facsimile machine, carbon paper, ink blotters, and Walkman’s, just to name a few. The sad part is, that all of these are not that old…to me!
Considering that the Apple computer (below) came out in 1995, and that the IPad is about 3 years old…how old can a computer really be? What did we do prior to 1995? How did we communicate? How did we find our way around on a trip? Thinking about it makes me realize how fast we are travelling, and how fast products are evolving, and where will it be in 5 years?
Given the above, how does a small business compete? How do they get more clients? What does the future bring for them? Last week I saw a lady at the bank paying all of her monthly bills with the teller one by one! Can you imagine? I can’t even imagine the last time I wrote a check!
Here’s a few things that my Grandson will never see or know about, black and white TV’s, with NO remote control. A night without a PlayStation or other similar game, rabbit ears on the TV, or SOS pads for those antennas that never worked. A day without telephones, or cell phones, a facsimile machine, carbon paper, ink blotters, and Walkman’s, just to name a few. The sad part is, that all of these are not that old…to me!
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