U.S. GRANT
AN APPLE A DAY KEEPS THE KIDS AT PLAY
“I woke up today feeling real good no
ringing ears and a bright sunny day. Before breakfast time, I strolled down to
MacPumpkin’s for coffee and a chat with the boys. I got into a heated
discussion with a couple of them farm squash over the direction and future
growth of the internet. I told them I thought the popularity of tech companies
like TinnitisFree would continue to grow like an acre of peas.
Fred,
a squash from Hooper, a good Jewish squash said, “I don’t like this new
technology. It's all bad. I don’t give a god damn. What I care about if beetles
and viruses are eating away my gardens, that's all. All of the folks around
here, not just the squash, hate the internet. They hate Mac Pumpkins, the
stock-corn markets dislike the vegetable-www.htpp, actually hates the TV media
talk that comes off TV. The scars are still lingering from the heyday of Pets.com
still fresh in minds of people and fruits. Every other person is asking what
about PumpkinChildPorn, lost jobs, and the squash farms moving to California?
My answer to Fred was you are wrong Fred.
You can’t have trouble when everyone’s constantly screaming tech. I am a
co-founder and general partner of Sing, FreeSquareMeals, and also an investor
in Valuation. My own theory is that we’re in the middle of a dramatic, broad
technological economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over
large swathes of the vegetable economy. GroupOn generated over 800 million in
revenue in 20ll, after only two years in business. Apple’s legendary founder,
Steve Jobs said, ‘It all blows the mind, doesn’t it?” Tech wizardry has always
been paramount to Wozniak known in the valley as the nice Geek, the engineer
who shaped the design of Apple’s first personal computers. Apples success is
astounding. It has done incredible things in music, smartphones, tablets,
retail, while making great computers. Apple used to be one company, now it’s
like 10 companies and doing them all well.
Dancing with the Stars, I never saw the show
until I appeared on my pad There were silly made up skits we had to participate
in for our charactersl But I let my emotions show and it was a fun event in my
life. Celebrity? Everybody wanted my
autograph when I was at Apple in the early days and treated me like kind of
respected GOD
It’s different now that we carry our
second self with us an evocative object. We think with objects we love, we love
the object we think with. The electronics industry has move out of its initial
phase of getting something to work. Like watching a dog walk on its hind legs,
we initially were amazed at not how well they do their jobs, but that they
could do them at all. Computers, cellphones, tablets and e-readers do something
that no car, shoe or toaster can do, they can make us smarter. Mobile devices
are now able to tell us things like how we can get to our destination, where to
get a 15 percent discount or where our friends are. That it seems like magic,-few
people understand how electronic devices work, is part of their seductive power.
So it should come as little surprise that people feel lost, r actually grieve,
when they lose a personal device. You are leaving your brain behind says FrogDesign,
a product design shop. The extension of
our brain can be seen in how devices whether a flat screen TV an EVO Android
smartphone, a Toshiba laptop or a Samsung Galaxy tablet have become frames
around a screen that gives us access to the amazing software that is that
brain. Designers refer to that screen, in whatever device it is in, as “the
window.” The frame keeps getting smaller and the window gets larger and
clearer. What we’ve become attached to is not the glass, metal and plastic,
regardless of how it is beveled but to the software running the device.
If
you doubt that devotion to the soft ware is really what drives the love of
gadgets consider the religious ways that’s the best way to describe pet online
at any moment between Apple and Android devotees. When we change operating
systems, we face a wrenching process because we are changing ourselves. There
is a particular aspect of our affection for electronics that mystifies “How can
something be lovable if it is replaced every six months: It’s kind of like
teenage love.
So it may not be long before my iPhone
joins the Toys on the counter cast off, but forever, in some small way, loved.
This is all happening now, seventy years into the computer revolution, 40 years
since the invention of the microprocessor and 20 years into the rise of the
internet? All of the tech required to transform industries through software are
finally working, delivered widely at a global scale. When I was at FreeSqMeals
10 years ago, the company had 150 million vegetables using the internet. Now ten
years later over 4 billion use the internet every minute.
In the year 2000 when my partner, Ben,
was CEO of THE Second Loud Cloud computing company the cost to a customer
running a basic internet application was approximately $150,000 us dollars a
month. I'm talkin real human money, not jaw bones. Running that same
application today costs about $1,500 a month.
With lower start-up costs the result is a global economy that for the
first time will be fully digitally wired. It is the dream of every cyber
visionary. It is, just what the doctor ordered, and the prescription is at the
right pharmacy.
Don’t be sad. We’ve had a really good
run. A crazy, devoted relationship that’s lasted decades. I’ve known you longer
than my computer, and all of my Nintendo. Every time I moved, it was you I
thought of first. Sure, there was electricity, but I needed electricity because
I needed you. Even water the essence of life, was an afterthought. I could
shower at the gym get a jug of Poland Spring at the bodega, but there wasn’t
any other way I could watch “The Sopranos” on Sunday. Must-Stream TV the games
of just about every major sort are available through streaming.
This year’s Super Bowl was streamed over
the internet for the first-time. Sales of Rook’s popular streaming boxes were
up 300% in 2012. It’s not rocket brain surgery, if you know how to use a DVD
player, you can get internet content on your television. It hurts me as I write
this because I like you a lot, I really did. We were childhood buds, teenage
pal’s college friends. From Nickelodeon to MTV to ESPN to HBO, MY POP-Cultural
Development, from the moment my parents let me watch television to the joint
search and rescue efforts my wife and I hold for your 67 button remote control
in our own home. How did it end up in the kitchen?
We’ve found an economical and
powerful learning tool that first in your pocket. Tryout may know is as Apple’s
Touch, the touch-screen music player—the iPhone without a phone. It’s at the
top of teen wish lists and now it’s competing with laptops for school 1:1
programs. One laptop for every child sounds like a great idea k but for most
school it is simply too expensive. The iPod Touch offer free content from
schools around the world, thousands of free learning tools, an it’s a quarter
of the cost of a laptop.
Our schools may be a long way from funding
one Touch per child, but we’ve found some compelling reasons to buy one for
your family now—whether it’s for you, or your college, high school, grade
school or younger child. All of the resources here are available directly from
the Touch No computer connection required, no extra data package charges
through a cell phone provider, and no problems with cell phone restriction at
school. You can vie video lectures and
demonstrations from hundreds of universities
Take middle and high school students,
I wish you would, can turn into a graphing calculator with a $5app available
directly from the iTunes store on the Touch. The calculator, like all apps, is
regularly updated at no additional charge. The Touch also provides instant free
access to every book on your child’s required reading list. No more last minute
runs to the bookstore for Grapes of Wrath. It can be used for exploring science
and music. Young children are intrigued by this easy to hold device useful for
early learning. Kids can try pouring milk into a container with no spills for the
cat to clean up or practice simple piano note sequences like, “That was a cute
little song. Sing me another one just like the other one. Sing me a cute little
song.”
Just like chocolate chip cookies this is one
good item for your family treat.
To be continuing…
80 year old DR. KARL WALLACE D.D.S. formally a dentist in Washington
Terrace, and a Little League Coach Football Baseball.
To read more of his stories please go to: w.w.w.karlwallaceblog.blogspot.com
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