I’ve earned my living using computers since 1980 and have experienced the refinement of the technology since then. At some point it would likely be fun to make comparisons between my first Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I and today’s 27-inch all-in-one machine. Even with having spent decades hammering away at keyboards to earn a living, I still sit in awe of where it all got to.

Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I

Just today I: scanned numerous news outlets (general news can be so depressing), paid bills electronically, gathered a series of recipes for a party, and visited both Lagos, Nigeria and Baffin Island, Canada via Google Earth. Wrote this blog and posted it to the Internet. (A neutrino of presence in the universe of the Net.) Many of these activities intermingled at the time.

This electronic miracle has accelerated mankind’s development. I’ve gone from four-function calculators that cost $100 to online banking. I can bring the outside environment into my cave, and I can reach out from my cave to affect that outside environment . This machine informs my political decisions and brings all  things material to my doorstep via Amazon. (Interesting that Amazon is the name of two of the world’s great networks: South America’s  Amazon, largest river in the world, and Amazon, the digital network irrigating the world with packages and data flow.)