In 1972, my own T.R.O.L.L. Assoc. company's ball-point pencils came with the challenge "Kiss My Bits!" (until a Frenchman told me that "Bits" was a French colloquialism for "penis"). Such ingenuous learning is very effective.
Ingenuous is why I'm here. Just in time, too.
Steve Jobs, Apple CEO, made me cry once again, this January 2007, when I saw his iPhone Keynote from MacWorld, streamed out on the Internet from Apple. That will be a historic presentation. Ye, of faltering faith, shall see.
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[Link: apple.com]On this day, 17Jan2007, that feed offers, among other topics, the following:
"Apple Reinvents the Phone With iPhone
Jan 9, 11:44
Apple today introduced iPhone, combining three products — a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls, and a breakthrough Internet communications device with desktop-class email, web browsing, searching, and maps — into one small and lightweight handheld device. Cingular, the largest wireless carrier in the U.S., will be Apple’s exclusive U.S. carrier partner for Apple’s revolutionary iPhone. Read more…"
In 1972, I was there, at Douglas Englebart's Palo Alto home. I had asked him if the Augmented Human Intellect System he'd produced at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) could be so much more productive that the Infonauts (my invented term) could outdistance all others so fast that the others (such as the Socialist Bloc) could never catch up. He said, "No. The leaders always stumble."
His "Infonauts" quit work whenever the Human Intellect System went down. They were so productive using the system, retreating to paperwork was, simply, out ot the question.
I had just used the mouse (Englbart invented the mouse and pioneered the Internet.} on the minicomputer point-and-click multi-terminal Augmented Human Intellect System he had adapted from the nearby Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Apple Computer's Lisa, then Macintosh, similarly adapted that PARC system.
I am now pointing-and-clicking on my 13 Macintosh Apple home T.R.O.L.L. Associates Garbogie Internet Station. It helps if, like me of great faith, one had invested in 10,000 shares of Apple when a share cost $7.50. Jobs has been good for me.
My home network can quite easily encouraged to operate like an IR Remote Control (but I still use IR Remotes). The iPhone can easily be adapted to Remote Control service by placing the right call with one touch.
Even though my Internet phone lines have free long distance, I look forward to an iPhone option for cordless connection to my home phone lines.
Last edited by paulmsteinback
on January 17, 2007 17:48.