15 May 2006
She Blinded Me With Science
Do you remember when you were in Junior High and your younger brother used his paper route money to buy a Vic20 and later a Commodore64? Yeah, me too. Those were good times, man! Programming rudimentary role playing games into the computer. Awesome! Have I revealed too much?
Remember the modem your dad had that he would plunk the telephone handset into? Or the job he gave you in High School, typing up punch cards so he could run his engineering software on them?
When I was in 7th grade a speaker came to talk to our class about the future. He told us that someone had invented a phone that you could use from the top of a mountain. At that point even cordless phones were unheard of so you could imagine how unbelieveable this sounded. He said that these phones would cost about 50 cents to make but they would be sold for a hundred dollars or more. Who was this guy and does he give advice about the stock market?
Remember the modem your dad had that he would plunk the telephone handset into? Or the job he gave you in High School, typing up punch cards so he could run his engineering software on them?
When I was in 7th grade a speaker came to talk to our class about the future. He told us that someone had invented a phone that you could use from the top of a mountain. At that point even cordless phones were unheard of so you could imagine how unbelieveable this sounded. He said that these phones would cost about 50 cents to make but they would be sold for a hundred dollars or more. Who was this guy and does he give advice about the stock market?
