We must ride technology – or be swamped by it


	We must ride technology – or be swamped by it

wildcat

1-3-2009 7:03 AM

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wildcat says:

The year is 2004. You are Karl Lagerfeld. And technology is about the make a fool of you. This, obviously, is a hypothetical scenario.

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1-3-2009 2:37 PM

aklimento

How he can remember such avalanche of music?

But he was right, there were 160 GB iPods in 08. Besides terabytes of Time Capsule, Wi-Fi and promised by Google broadcasted lightning Internet. We need similar progress in social, political and humanitarian sciences as well.

1-15-2009 7:31 AM

Jorjor

However, the applications and other files used by those larger capacity units will bloat as well. Who needed gigabyte drives 10-15 years ago (at least for personal use)?

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