Technology

And we invented what today?

What is it with the technology today? It seems as if the technology is attempting to overpass, undermine, or otherwise completely ignore the economies nature. This is a lot like our government, and every government to ever exist. While yes, technology is advancing as it should, technology today has quite improved over ten or twenty years ago, and the ability for communications by technology are far superior to especially one hundred years ago, or fifty years ago, twenty-five years ago. Today it is far easier to create, or otherwise recreate different pieces of technology, and to learn about how to understand the technology, so much eaiser. But, we are idiots to leave it at just that, now. Technology does not advance in the way that it should be advancing, basically.

The development of most technology is through Science Fiction, “Ooh, it would be neat to have one of those.” Star Trek had the most of the “It would be neat to have one of those.” A case of this would be with Cellphones, and the flipphones that we have today. The push for flipphones is mostly based off of the Communicators from Star Trek the Original Series. Those funny little devices, you flip them open and talk with someone else within range, a lot like cellphones. Except with cellphones we still have the numbers to dial, most of the time, some phones were working on the system of saying a name and it will call it from a database. But all in all, we were pretty much at that point. All nice and everything, until they stop advancing it and suddenly cut the legs out from under us and think that we just do not have the stature to stand up and be accounted for in what would be better to have.

Thus we introduce the PDA, Personal Digital Assisstant. They were devices that were nice back in the hay day, the touch screens that could be used for handwriting, it was pretty much a planner just in a smaller space. And of course, lacking the size of the paper so that it was hard to write nearly as much, and the stylus slips on the pad so your handwriting gets a bit messed up, plus the having to navigate by touching buttons instead of flipping pages, having to wait for the system to respond, not being able to stop on every page and read the Non Sequitor comic or Dilbert comic that is at the bottom. Still, they would have been something useful, just probably could have been more useful to be larger, like the Star Trek datapads, and perhaps with the abilities today they would even work better, having more memory available so that the system does not take forever in a day to respond… though that would start to worry about the programs to be running, and that is past the point. First cellphones picked up the camera, and why, we already have Digital Cameras, and sorry, but a 10.2 megapixel camera, or 9.1, or 8.534 is actually worthwhile instead of the waste of 1.3 megapixel. Then, they mixed the PDA with Cellphone, and… here we are.

The introduction of the iPhone, followed by the Motorola Driod. And a few other various products in between as well. And I only wonder, what is the point in the first place? What happened to advancing from the flip communicators to the com badges? Little things that you clip on your shirt, or go Babylon 5 with sticking to the back of your hand, you just tap on it or press buttons and start speaking with a name to address who you are directing the conversation to and then talking. The Swiss Army knife had a stopping point after about the sixteenth hidden knife that they put on it, or much sooner then that. Though even better, those BabCom units could be used for remote controls. No more misplacing the TV remote, it is a win-win.

Now, the PDA portion in the iPhone and such. It is nice, but what happened to the touch screen? Sure, the enjoyment of having your entire personal biography as well as an entire set of Encyclopedies saved onto a drive accessable by a unit that fits in your pocket is very nice and everything… of course there had at one point been the use of microfilm that just took a magnifier that was not put to waste after a EMP blast. But you do still lack the size of a screen, and the touch screen digital effects. And remember, for books, hard cover books with the larger print size are easier to read then the small paperbacks with the even smaller print. What you could really have is paper sized touch pads, probably would have to be quite a bit thicker though. It would just be a logical concept, and to leave the communicator as that… a communicator. A communicator and Remote Control, that is just remotely communicating to command an electronic device anyways, so its all communication. Advance the communication to the next step. And feel free to send me an E-Mail, my trash basket is feeling abandoned.

The Anecdotal Rabbit