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.
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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 segariniPat Blythe – Mind and body in isolation…..losing the connection
Posted in COVID 19, life, music, Opinion, Review with tags Alexander Chouker, Bob Segarini, COVID 19, DBAWIS, depression pit, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Dr. Sue Varma, Elmwood Underground, Greg Plant, Harry Harlowe, isolation, James Coan, Joe Towers, Livia Tomova, luvthemusic, Macky, Mars-500, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, mental health, Miss Manners, MIT, neurocognitive, neuroscientist, New York University, pandemic, Pat Blythe, Pat Blythe A Girl With A Camera, phone sex, quarantine, Rebecca Saxe, Roxanne Tellier, sexting, Shawn O’Shea, sleep connection, The PepTides, touch, University of Virginia, videoconferencing, World Trade Center on April 29, 2020 by segarini
We all need touch…..human touch. A handshake, a hug, the brushing of legs, a gentle pat on the arm in conversation, holding hands, arms around shoulders, brushing hair from a face, the playful tug on your ear from a baby….it’s all about touch. It’s what we crave. It’s what we desire. It’s reassuring. It’s caring. It’s affection. It’s love. It’s unspoken words. Touch is how the blind “see” us. Touch is what connects us to ourselves and each other and we’re losing that connection.
Frank Gutch Jr: The Pac Northwest— Redux….. In the Way of Explanation
Posted in Opinion with tags city zu, DBAWIS, Don & The Goodtimes, Don Gallucci, Don't Believe a Word I Say, EJD Enterprises, Eugene Pop Festival, fats domino, Frank Gutch Jr., Indie Artists, Indie Music, Jack Ely & The Courtmen, Merrilee & The Turnabouts, Merrilee Rush, music, music videos, Pacific Northwest Bands, Peter Blecha, Records, The Dominions, The Kingsmen, Tiny Tony & The Statics, touch on June 27, 2014 by segarini
When I wrote this past week’s column about the Pacific Northwest music scene (read it here), I left it feeling as if it wasn’t quite done. You may have gotten an idea of what it was like but unless you lived it, you don’t. I knew my little corner of the Willamette Valley and I am sure that Seattle people my age knew Seattle and Portland people knew Portland, but if you weren’t there it was a different planet. I came to that realization while re-watching the documentary which highlighted the aforementioned column— the one laying out EJD Enterprises and the part Ed Daugherty played in the lives of so many musicians and teens back in the sixties’ Willamette Valley of Oregon.
Segarini: Don't Believe a Word I Say 