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Technology That Empowers Me

Started by Thom Allen · 8 months ago

I’m around technology all day. I have a laptop, a PDA, several desktops, cameras and so on. But there are a few pieces of technology that empower me. My T-Mobile MDA empowers me the most. It gives me the ability to be connected just about anywhere.
1. I have mobile Internet. This ... Continue reading »

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  • Ironically, those of us in web video who've been preaching the "all-in-one-box" mantra for years were right after all... except for the part where your box doesn't play video all that well.

    Yet.

    The other stumbling block here is that, even though we can continue to boil our technological lives down to one or two boxes, everyone's still going to have their own VERSIONS of those boxes. I somehow doubt we'll ever reach full standardization, nor should we. But I do wonder if the utopian (and minimalist) hope for a "one box" solution is a pipe dream for precisely these capitalist reasons...
  • Hey Justin,

    I completely blame the device and not the content. I know the device wasn't designed around media so it lacks the ability. It will be nice when device manufactures start releasing a line of devices, i.e. iPhone, that take content into consideration.

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