Post by Progenitor A on Apr 11, 2012 10:09:46 GMT 1
I am not one for technology really.
Whilst being something of a specialist on mobile phone technology, lecturing companies like Vodafone and O2 on how they should engineer their networks, and appearing in court as an expert witness on the subject, I did not possess a mobile phone; whilst knowing in depth the engineering behind the SMS service, I had never sent a text message
Actually I found it all a little boring - although there can some aesthetic appeal about engineering, and there certainly was about the complex mobile phone system, it was not the sort of aesthetic that one would discuss at the dinner table. In fact engineering is quite a lonely pursuit ideally suited to geeks, and I suppose I was one of those
But recently my wife bought for me an iPod. It has the astonishing capacity of 160GB.
Now when men landed on the moon, there was not nearly that much storage electronic capacity in the whole world as there is in my slim 4" x 3" iPod box (there is more computing capacity in your mobile phone than the whole of NASA had for the moon-shots)
So I have stored all my record collection on this beautiful little box. - that is 7 days of continuous playing! And that takes up only 20GB of the storage space!
Not only can I store all this music, but I can also arrange it easily into lists of similar -type music. Thus I have Bach, Early Music. Easy listening, Blues and Country, Pop, Other Classical. I can shuffle all the songs or in the case of the great classical works, play them in the right order
I am amazed with this technology!
It really is so beautiful!
Whilst being something of a specialist on mobile phone technology, lecturing companies like Vodafone and O2 on how they should engineer their networks, and appearing in court as an expert witness on the subject, I did not possess a mobile phone; whilst knowing in depth the engineering behind the SMS service, I had never sent a text message
Actually I found it all a little boring - although there can some aesthetic appeal about engineering, and there certainly was about the complex mobile phone system, it was not the sort of aesthetic that one would discuss at the dinner table. In fact engineering is quite a lonely pursuit ideally suited to geeks, and I suppose I was one of those
But recently my wife bought for me an iPod. It has the astonishing capacity of 160GB.
Now when men landed on the moon, there was not nearly that much storage electronic capacity in the whole world as there is in my slim 4" x 3" iPod box (there is more computing capacity in your mobile phone than the whole of NASA had for the moon-shots)
So I have stored all my record collection on this beautiful little box. - that is 7 days of continuous playing! And that takes up only 20GB of the storage space!
Not only can I store all this music, but I can also arrange it easily into lists of similar -type music. Thus I have Bach, Early Music. Easy listening, Blues and Country, Pop, Other Classical. I can shuffle all the songs or in the case of the great classical works, play them in the right order
I am amazed with this technology!
It really is so beautiful!
