Coming in low over the sprawling, cluttered city, the plane shook as it swooped toward the landing strip. Craggily barriers hopefully demarcated the ‘airport’ from the surrounding metropolis and the heat began pulsing through the windows The entire holiday, dare I call it that, had been excruciating, and the descent into this equatorial city indicatedContinue reading “Out of Place”
Two Loves: Mac or Pad?
The right tool for the job is the guiding principle for how we choose cars, homes, and computers. With greater awareness of the job, and our own skill sets, we gradually learn what tool best matches what job. In 2010, iPhone 4 removed my need to carry around four separate tools: a ridiculous Samsung OmniaContinue reading “Two Loves: Mac or Pad?”
English is Not a German Language
The Death of iPad, the Death of Computers
The recent advance of iPad into laptop functionality is the death of the original necessities which allowed the iPad to create a new market, and it also indicates that traditional Wintels are in deep trouble. The move from iPad being an iCloud and Internet-focussed device, to being a mouse-driven, personal computer, is Apple’s response toContinue reading “The Death of iPad, the Death of Computers”
Contradistinction
Making Connections
The adult learner has a wealth of knowledge not just about the language they need to study, but about how their primary language functions. Most people aware of their learning style and what they need to know. What most people lack is an awareness of how their brains can be supported in learning, or howContinue reading “Making Connections”
Star Trek
Up there with Apple, Star Trek is one of the most important, positive contributions of modern North American culture to humanity. Gene Roddenberry’s infallible vision of the future, where humanity has overcome the biological and physiological necessities, and strives toward the emotional, intellectual as a path toward the spiritual, is perhaps the only modern andContinue reading “Star Trek”
Consumption Device becomes Consuming Device
iPadOS Well, it seems to me that Microsoft, Google, and all of China are full of complete idiots. Europe can collectively be thrown into this hodge-podge bag of useless idiots too. Or perhaps I’m over-estimating the percentage of the human population which is capable of truely creative engineering innovation… Microsoft’s contribution to modern computing isContinue reading “Consumption Device becomes Consuming Device”
The History of the Macintosh
Apple Computer The History of the Macintosh In 1978, the Apple Lisa began development as the embodiment of applied and humanised computing being demonstrated at Xerox Parc. Steve Jobs was in charge of this expensive failure, and saw his first GUI-based computing solution out-performed by the Macintosh. Jef Raskin began the Mac project in 1979Continue reading “The History of the Macintosh”
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