How technologies come back

[Rogue Hawk]

The number of people who wear a wrist watch has dropped dramatically. People think, why wear a wrist watch when I can reach into my pocket and glance at my smart phone. Well, before the wrist watch, that is what people did, they reached into there picket and glanced at their...pocket watch. I continue to wear a wrist watch because it takes less time to glance at my wrist than to reach into my pocket, go figure.

Computers are the same way. People are so exited about "The Cloud" Wow! How revolutionary, all your data on a remote server somewhere and you just connect to it and get your stuff! Guess what, that is what they did before desktop PCs came along in the 80's. People connected to a mainframe computer...and got there stuff.

 

[vided]

What goes around comes around.
what was, is again
nothing is new
:roflblack::roflblack::roflblack::roflblack::roflblack:

 

[Bob Denman]

CIRCLES...

Check out the Dude's hair... :bowdown:

 

[Rogue Hawk]

CIRCLES...

Check out the Dude's hair... :bowdown:

In five years singers will look like that again and it will be new and revolutionary.

 

[Orange Spyder Man]

opcorn: I don't have a smart phone.. nor do I want one.. and I DON'T WEAR A WRIST WATCH.. gee my auto has a clock.. my phone has a clock.. and I have clocks all over my house..

osm

 

[vided]

He who has a clock always knows the time
he who has 2 clocks is never sure. :thumbup::thumbup:

 

[AY4B]

I quit wearing a watch ...I can't remember ts been so long. I also quit waking up to an alarm around the same time. I have not missed it.

 

[Bfromla]

From the tail end of wild hogs Peter Fonda is
Damien Blade: [laughs] "Wild Hogs. Well, Wild Hogs... ride hard or stay home. Oh, and guys... lose the watches. "
[he leaves]


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[PrairieSpyder]

The number of people who wear a wrist watch has dropped dramatically. People think, why wear a wrist watch when I can reach into my pocket and glance at my smart phone. Well, before the wrist watch, that is what people did, they reached into there picket and glanced at their...pocket watch. I continue to wear a wrist watch because it takes less time to glance at my wrist than to reach into my pocket, go figure.

Computers are the same way. People are so exited about "The Cloud" Wow! How revolutionary, all your data on a remote server somewhere and you just connect to it and get your stuff! Guess what, that is what they did before desktop PCs came along in the 80's. People connected to a mainframe computer...and got there stuff.

But the data on the mainframe wasn't "mine" but the company's. And bytes were pretty expensive. Now I have my own data on the cloud and I can access it from the device in my hand from anywhere in the world! And though the data is stored remotely, it's discrete in that it's not common to all the users of the mainframe.

 

[IdahoMtnSpyder]

But the data on the mainframe wasn't "mine" but the company's. And bytes were pretty expensive. Now I have my own data on the cloud and I can access it from the device in my hand from anywhere in the world! And though the data is stored remotely, it's discrete in that it's not common to all the users of the mainframe.

Yes, Miss Wet Blanket, just go ahead and spoil the analogy! :gaah:

:roflblack::roflblack:

When televisions first came out they had screens about 8". Then we slowly worked our way up to 100" screens. Now we're going back to watching video on a 5" screen! :thumbup:

Go ahead Miss Spoil Sport! Tell me how it's not the same because the resolution is much better!!!!!

:roflblack::roflblack::roflblack::roflblack:

And then we've gone from handwriting to typewriter to keyboard back to handwriting on a touch screen!!!! And schools want to drop cursive writing instruction now that programs are smart enough to interpret even a doctor's handwriting! We really are screwed up, ain't we?

 

[Bob Denman]

:shocked: Will somebody please let me know when I should put on a loincloth, and go organize a Wooly-Mammoth hunting party?

(That would be a pretty large circle; wouldn't it? )

 

[Grandpot]

Don't throw out your old ties. :gaah:

That comment was for those that still have to wear ties.:roflblack:

 

[PrairieSpyder]

:shocked: Will somebody please let me know when I should put on a loincloth, and go organize a Wooly-Mammoth hunting party?

(That would be a pretty large circle; wouldn't it? )

When you do, be sure to invite me over! I want to see that!!! :yikes:

 

[Bob Denman]

:shocked: No you don't... :yikes:

 

[ThreeWheels]

Don't forget Vinyl records. Not new old stock.
Brand new pressings of Beatles albums, but also new pressings of Miley Cyrus and Wicked.
Of course, they're in the $40 each range.

 

[AY4B]

I guess the best modern example is the technology that we got and are still getting from Nicola Tesla. I just recently went to wireless charging on my Galaxy Note 4, a technology he came up with long ago. You can go farther than that, there are ancient civilizations that were far more advanced than we are today. There is nothing new under the sun.

 

[Lew L]

No watch, no rings

Years ( and years) of teaching metal shop left me with no watch and no rings( safety hazards). Don't miss'm at all.

Kaos

Nicola Tesla was quite the foward thinker. Funny how the US government took all his plans and notes after his death. And we do have alternating power at our fingertips (so to speak) through his efforts.

 

[mowin]

I guess I'm the odd ball that still wears a watch. Mine died yesterday, and I must have looked at my naked wrist a dozen times today.

 

[bronzeflex42]

I got to have on my watch. Always have worn one even in my elementary school days. :bbq:

 

[Bob Denman]

:agree: Without my watch; I'm in a :yikes: state of mind! nojoke