Even the machine is toast.
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,2091333,00.html
I remember tuning in to CNBC last year to watch Steve Jobs live.
The event: the I-Pad.
Steve sat leisurely on stage, showing us on-screen all the touching touchy features.
The Apple II inventor inadvertently declared the death of PC (not right away, but it’s the beginning of the end).
However you look at it, once consumers are “spoiled” with lighter, faster and cheaper products, there is no turning back. (Since when do we go out and buy a boom box to listen to music?).
Enligtment soon turns entitlement.
Perhaps someday, PC’s will turn vintage.
Even rustic. To be nature-preserved, in the Pacific Northwest, to load Win 10 and beyond.
In the age of Google Docs and cloud computing, mobile and jet engines, Cat Stevens just needs to pack up a tablet in “I am leaving, on the jet plane,…”
Seeing an opportunity in high-tech waste, an entrepreneur started collecting e-waste:
800-GOT-JUNK fleet.
He probably followed HP news closely, especially when the later announced the unraveling of its earlier merger with Compaq.
Junking a lot of mice, key boards, monitors, CPU‘s and speakers.
Even paperback books can’t seem to compete with E readers.
Summer reading on trains and planes will never be the same.
Richard North Patterson benefited from E-revision of his latest, The Devil’s Light, upon the news of Bin Laden.
If anything, we can all feel a relief that cumbersome hardware and E-waste will be less taxing
on our ecosystem.
Computing is evolving and has gone mobile.
It’s all 1 and 0. So, why bother with all the weight or Wang?
Computing at the speed of light.
It is to show how fast the adoption curve has been since the Mini-Computer (whose inventor just died last year) to Personal Computer (whose inventor just died last week),
and even machine can’t escape its own cycle of birth, life and death (and rebirth, which is the euphemism for going vintage).
Just make sure you junk them responsibly. Call 800-GOT-PCs?
Thang Nguyen 555 