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ROCK, PAPER, SNIFFERS by Jaimie Vernon

Posted in music, Opinion, Review with tags Beer, Bill Gates, Bob Segarini, Canadian Music, computers, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Fast Times At Ridgemont High, five senses, Frampton Comes Alive, Gutenberg Bible, hearing, IBM, Jaimie Vernon, Jetsons, Kindle, Magic markers, paperless, rec rooms, record collection, Skynet, Smartphones, smell, stale sex, Steve Jobs, Taste, technology, the sixth sense, touch, weed, Wozniak on November 2, 2020 by segarini

We were promised a paperless society by the technology gurus of the 1980s. It’s been over 30 years since IBM launched the concept of the desktop computer. It was going to revolutionize personal communication – even before the advent of the internet – and they were right. But that vision was gratuitously optimistic. I worked for the company that built the wiring systems for these beasts…back when they were the size of a gas furnace and ran on steam power and 47″ floppy discs containing 64k of memory. We were contracted to build about 150 wiring systems a week for their machines. I went to head office in Don Mills where they had motorized robotic pool tables shuttling CPU’s and 70 lb. Scare-o-Vision cathode driven monitors through a warehouse larger than Cape Canaveral. They were moving 10 of these units at a time…and over the course of a year they were selling less than 50,000 of these.