old man rant ... again

[davehorne]

I've written similar things in the past, and I'm doing it again.   

I know we all have minor irritations with various aspects of our phones, but having grown up in the 1950s, we have a 1990s supercomputer in our pockets, capable of displaying QHD+ (3120 x 1440), with a computational performance of ~3379.2 GFLOPS. 

My wife rolls her eyes when I mention things like this, but we have incredible technology at our fingertips.

I pull into a campsite and can call up an app showing me the exact path of the sun for the entire day.  

We don't even have to type in our search words, we can speak them in.  We can have free video calls, free video conference calls, and perform this magical act while we're biking or shopping in our supermarket.

I don't carry a leather wallet anymore, I pay for everything using my phone.

I 'll take the train to Amsterdam and watch CNN or the BBC is near real-time ... for free.

In addition to all that, it's a phone.     

As you were ...

[GoanGeek]

Love it 🙏

Very Inspirational. 🔥

[TechZilla]

Great points raised 👏

[Case1188]

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[JAMES4578]

@davehorne Yes we need to appreciate the technology and not take it for granted, the way you have expressed it does sound magical.    Gripes are often very much first world problems:)

of course when very young we all had Dreams but when you think of it is amazing,  I remember  the time of Black and White televisions and of course no mobiles at all.

[BandOfBrothers]

Well said @davehorne 

Heck I remember when all you could do on a mobile phone was make a call and that was expensive in itself 😎

[smiley]

100% agree. To add to this i read all my favourite magazines and newspapers with Readly, listen to a great playlist on a Friday afternoon to get into the mood of the weekend, and binge watch a favourite boxset on the train to work.

Not to mention raw camera, ability to tweak and adjust from the phone using light room, and video like a pro.

Truly marvelous devices. I can't see much more that can be done... but i am sure Gemini will tell me 😂 😂

Smiley

[TechZilla]

I remember when you went out for the day or left work there was no way to contact us, not going to lie, I enjoyed being unreachable especially when it comes to work 🙃

[smiley]

There is a downside to being able to be in contact 24/7. 🙄

[JerryS]

A good reminder of how far things have come! I remember one of the first systems I worked on needing ticker tape to boot and target memory addresses manually tapped into a panel!