Ramble: Tech and Typing...

Texting is what I've had to do mainly when on the road since I've not been able to have much computer access.  My rambles have been on highways and backroads, towns and cities with my digital camera being my biggest toy along the way.  It has been a strong reminder of then versus now...

The world wide web is 15 years old.  Can you imagine any other invention that has changed our world as much as this one has?  Tim Berners-Lee, inventer of the web, says, "The future is always in the past and for the web particularly. In a hundred years, 15 years will seem to be just the infancy of the web..." Tim O'Reilly says, "It's the most profound change since the advent of literacy. And it's bigger than the industrial revolution." 

Hunt and Peck? Those are the big texters! In 6th grade my class undertook an experiment, giving up study hall for a year in order to master typing fundamentals on IBM Selectrics.  The ability to write faster, to be able to write at the speed of thinking, was supposed to enhance our creativity in English.  I think it did, but it was the use of the correcting tab that made it easy for me.  Regardless, working at a keyboard ever since, you'd think I'd have an advantage in typing speed.  Nooooooo. How fast do you type?  Go see how you do at this online test.

Look at that Google and Apple stock. (Hurray). Apple's new iPhone comes out in June, scheduled to sell for $199 and I bet that this will be the edge needed to pull in BlackBerry users.  I'll make my switch then. Apple posts more than $1 billion in profit; Mac sales are booming, up 51%.  Steve Jobs invented the PC in 1977 and one expert wonders if the iPhone will be the end of the internet.

I've captured our crumbling world in photos and will be posting those once I get them sorted out at home...
Roadway  Ramblin' Cheers!

Comments

[allison]

I can type pretty fast on a keyboard, but am agonizingly slow at texting because I want to punctuate, capitalize, and spell correctly. (I've often thought I should have been an english teacher.) I see the results of texting in emails and papers I receive from my students. Maybe I'm just not keeping up with the times in this area.

[tut-tut]

I cannot text; it is amazing to see my teenager poking away at cell phone. I don't know the first thing about it.