I continue to be in perpetual awe of human technology if for no other reason than it’s the dividing line between us and the rest of the animal kingdom except maybe cats who have been secretly running the planet for nearly 5,000 years without so much as giving us a heads up. Opposable thumbs have led us to more than just cracking coconuts open and banging rocks together in hopes of getting a record deal. Our search for knowledge fuels our desire to create better tools to obtain that knowledge faster so that we might then have more time to waste using time-wasting tools. It’s a perpetual cycle.
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TECHNOPHOBICA by Jaimie Vernon
Posted in life, Opinion, Review with tags bang the rocks together, bank transfers, Bob Segarini, Canadian Music, Cats, cellphones, DBAWIS, devices, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Douglas Adams, Encyclopedia Galactica, gadgets, gear, gear heads, gizmos, guitar, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Jaimie Vernon, obsolete, pedals, pencil sharpener, pyramids, Smartphones, tablet, technology on November 9, 2020 by segariniROCK, 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.
JAIMIE VERNON – I, ROBOT
Posted in Opinion with tags bang the rocks together, bank transfers, Bob Segarini, Canadian Music, Cats, cellphones, DBAWIS, devices, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Douglas Adams, Encyclopedia Galactica, gadgets, gear, gear heads, gizmos, guitar, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, I Robot, Isaac Asimov, Jaimie Vernon, obsolete, pencil sharpener, pyramids, Samsung tablet, Smartphones, technology on January 24, 2015 by segarini
I continue to be in perpetual awe of human technology if for no other reason than it’s the dividing line between us and the rest of the animal kingdom except maybe cats who have been secretly running the planet for nearly 5,000 years without so much as a word about it. Opposable thumbs have led us to more than just cracking coconuts open and banging two rocks together in hopes of getting a record deal.
JAIMIE VERNON – ROCK, PAPER, SNIFFERS
Posted in Opinion with tags Beer, Bill Gates, Bob Segarini, Canadian Music, cave paintings, 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 March 22, 2014 by segarini
Roxanne Tellier – Call Me, Maybe
Posted in Opinion with tags Addiction, Cell Phones, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Hank Williams, Roxanne Tellier, Smartphone Addiction, Smartphones, The Bobcast, Toronto on July 21, 2013 by segarini
Social media surrounds us. You can reach out and touch almost anyone with the click of a button.
We’ve got all sorts of lovely technology. There’s no need to make a phone call, if you can email instead. Or why email when you could just text? Surely, your message is far too urgent to leave to the vagaries of voice mail!
Segarini: Don't Believe a Word I Say 