tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5219216092017947898.post6400537958657730630..comments2024-03-08T00:28:38.067-08:00Comments on Random Markers: Technology: Do you get it?Mano Markshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07480503243910499765noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5219216092017947898.post-69389216538719103342011-09-25T05:57:30.022-07:002011-09-25T05:57:30.022-07:00Can you imagine the technology in the future? How ...Can you imagine the technology in the future? How far ahead can you imagine? Now take an <b>Android</b> phone back in time hand it to Leonardo da Vinci, Newton, Jules Verne... Tell them about the new technology, tell them its not that hard to understand. <b>IMAGINE</b> what they could do with the technology!<br /> Without knowing it people have understood technology for millennia, take a sundial; it computes the time based on the position of a shadow. That is four thousand year old technology still in place today, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexagesimal" rel="nofollow">Sexagesimal</a> number system (base60) developed for sundials is the basis of time and navigation measurement. Google maps sits on top of that four thousand year old technology, will Google maps still be around in 4000 years? <br />I feel stupid, because I get the technology, but have fail to make a living from it or I am so tied up learning the technology that I forgot to make a living from it.Trevor Seamanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05281186968260345645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5219216092017947898.post-63542591454684727612011-09-25T05:56:55.173-07:002011-09-25T05:56:55.173-07:00"Oh, I'm just not good with technology.&q..."Oh, I'm just not good with technology." <br /><br />The statement is actually really rather paradoxical when you think about it. In that, it is itself using an abstract coded system to transmit thought. Spoken word is itself an example of technology par excellence.Fraserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01923453317612077986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5219216092017947898.post-25248155050922195132011-09-25T05:40:24.924-07:002011-09-25T05:40:24.924-07:00I have always assumed that the comment rather than...I have always assumed that the comment rather than being about me was an expression of THEIR anxiety and past experience. <br /><br />"I have had trouble in the past navigating computer technology" Or "When I have run into trouble with technology, I was quite dispirited" or "I seem to be less capable with technology than those around me". If it was about me it was only in the context of saying "I find that I learn slowly, please do not embarrass me".mblumenthalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10535098750749182979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5219216092017947898.post-29505937772429358842011-09-24T20:28:32.000-07:002011-09-24T20:28:32.000-07:00A while ago, a friend pointed me to an article abo...A while ago, a friend pointed me to an article about televisions sold in cabinets made by Amish. He thought it was funny - "Can you imagine? The Amish involved in technology?"<br /><br />I have to admit I looked at him like he was a moron.<br /><br />"The Amish have <b>always</b> been involved in technology," I explained, "And they've always been particularly <i>good</i> at it."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com