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"I am the beat of your pulse, the computer word made flesh" - Queensryche, Screaming in Digital
"I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid... afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you. A world without rules or controls, borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you." From the movie, The Matrix.
I have been on a computer since the age of 8. The first computer to ever be brought into the house was a small Timex Sinclair box. It had no means to save any coding, hooked directly to the television (mine was black and white at the time), had a whopping 2K of memory and was basically just a keypad.
From there I was given a Commodore 64 and eventually a Commodore 128. The most advanced in the school system then was the Apple computers and they were rare. I eventually grew into the PC while working for Radio Shack and selling Tandy computers. These were some of the best times to be involved in computers.
Everything was a mystery waiting to be unlocked. There were very few applications and games so we had to program our own. Eventually the computer world grew into what it is today. Today the processors are capable of things we had only dreamed of back then. The first modem I used was a 300 baud accoustic coupler. Once connected, one had to be very careful not to knock the table or else you could have been disconnected immediately. There wasn't much out there at that time, but that also grew.
Today we just about suffer from information overload. Thousands of documents, opinions, reviews are available for anyone with a computer and a phone line.
Tomorrow is just over the horizon and computers promise to be an even larger part of our lives. Evolution of the wearable computer will advance to the common person in the next few years. We may even come perilously close to the future depicted in so many movies and television shows such as Max Headroom.
No matter how much society comes to depend on these machines and no matter how much we enjoy what they can do for us; let us not forget that there is a wonderful world out there waiting for us.
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