Technology, How good is it? and how I've benefitted from it! ?

 

     Is technology Good, Bad or whatever you make of it?

Many of you will have an opinion that you may decide you want to share in the comments box, somewhere at the bottom of this post. 

    You may wonder why I put the Virgin Logos at the head of this post, and the answer is simply these are the logos for the company that's currently looking after my IT needs (and wants). When I first started with a home internet connection, I had to have a modem connected to telephone line along with a filter to ensure a smooth signal to the PC. Once I'd purchased all this kit from (in those days) BT who had the monopoly on such things, I proceeded to plug in my very first computer, back in the days of Windows 95 and an upgrade to Windows 98 and its second edition, where the core processor was just a single not a dual core as they are now. Software was stored on things called floppy discs that developed into zip discs that developed into CD Roms (that are still around today) and they have been superseded by remote online storage and plug and go memory devices as well. 

    All these commodities had their own drives that could be built into the main case, or even had their own cases that needed to be plugged into each other to transfer stored data. To all of this you needed a printer, only of the dot-matrix type, a mouse for moving things around and a keyboard for inputting data, also a set of speakers for use when sound was being added to different things. 

    As the years progressed the computers got more and more complex with memory becoming more and more important as speeds increased and that involved the Random Access Memory (RAM) getting larger going from megabytes to gigabytes as the main processor speeds gradually rose to what they are today (but I cannot remember to tell you). All this and over time mother board, the heart of the PC got smaller until they all have ended up micro size and built onto a silicon chip (Integrated Circuit).It now means the size of PC's can be reduced to at least half the size of the early one's.

    Now the PC's have shrunk in size again, the laptop was born, meaning you could carry your PC anywhere you went, meaning the office worker could do work on the move, thanks to the battery that is a vital part of it.

    But the PC was still shrinking and the next reduction was the tablet and eventually the PC amalgamated with the mobile telephone to become a smart phone, both PC and mobile phone.

I ask myself, how many of you can remember having the technology at all those different stages of  evolution, and others I've failed to fit in.

    With all the technology I posses, there is still the use for it, and tomorrow I have an engineer coming to visit to upgrade one piece of technology and supply me with yet another piece. Oh it will be good to get things properly set up as well.

    So after all the waffle I now pass it over to you for your comments and please have your say

Thanks     Ali