Televisions are looking less like televisions these days
August 10, 2008 on 8:50 am | In Technology | No CommentsIf you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
I don’t know about you but I sort of preferred it when televisions looked like televisions. Kind of like the way I prefer cars which look like cars - like they used to. No gadgety things to go wrong, no expensive replacing of small computerised parts. I like technology to keep things nice and simple.
We were looking at TV’s yesterday and walking through an electrical dept these days is certainly like a walk through a science and technology exhibition!
I saw the largest version of the LCD HDTV that there is on the market and wondered how on earth people manage to view them at home…what size living room would they have!! the tv’s all look like computer screens - and where’s all the knobs and tuners gone…?
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Are we suffering from information overload…?
August 1, 2008 on 10:54 am | In Science Fiction Technology, Technology | No CommentsIt is official. The human race is suffering from ’information overload’ and we are all being advised to turn off the mobile phones ( something I would celebrate! ), unplug the computers, get off the nintendos and PSP’s, put away the iPods and find your way without the darn GPS.
And it is true; we are relying way too heavily on technology these days. Everything is either a blip on a screen or plugged into your ear. We shop online, flirt online, work online - we can buy products on cyberspace including everything from acne products to surrogate mothers.
We cannot do anything using our own brains anymore; we program things to tell us where to go and how to get ( often getting lost on the way ), we find our perfect mate by entering a few details and seeing our ideal match chosen for us…
Just imagine we actually DID spend 24 hours totally reliant on nothing more than our own instincts, knowledge and initiative. Or have we grown out of all that…?
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Camera’s…they sure have changed
July 12, 2008 on 4:30 pm | In Technology | No CommentsWhen you think back to the very first time a photograph was ever taken - back in 1826 by the French Chevalier brothers - the camera has to be considered one of the most significant inventions of mankind.
It has effectively recorded mans progress through the 19th and 20th century, capturing all those historic moments which made the 19th and 20 centuries the most interesting in the history of humankind. Before then we only had an artist’s impression or the written word…
But look at how the camera has evolved since that day in 1826 when the Chevalier’s took that first photo; it was on a sliding wooden box camera. Since then we have had Daguerrotypes and Lithographs; camera obscura’s and box brownies. Then later came the self-developing cameras and now we have the digital cameras with their compact flash and memory cards.
And they have all played a part in the last 200 years. Why? because we have the last 200 years on film.
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