one of my most joyful memories of technology refer to the Origami Project. The effort by Microsoft, Intel, and others launched Ultra-Mobile PCs, or UMPCs. The devices, akin to squeezing an entire Windows machine into something the size of a mid-range iPad, often complete with a physical keyboard, utterly fascinated me back in 2006.
At that time he had almost no money, so buying one of the devices was completely out of the question. But, while visiting an electronics store with my dad after the first round of UMPC came out (we were probably looking for a kit for his business), I walked down an aisle of computer hardware and, to my astonishment, found a promotional end cap from UMPC devices. could wear the devices that had been nerdy so long. It was a bit like meeting a celebrity for my teenage self. I was spellbound
I’ve had other moments of pure technological bliss in my life: In high school, when my friends and I realized that thanks to Gmail’s generous storage limits and my school’s reasonable internet, we could ditch USB sticks. completely and simply send us files by email. from the other side of the same table. It felt like magic, using bits instead of whatever we had to carry in our pockets.
Technology has a simply beautiful way of taking your breath away sometimes, showing you that there is a new shortcut or a new way of thinking that is now before you that was completely occluded before. That’s how the launch of the iPhone felt, to highlight a well-known example of the phenomenon.
Not long since then has given me the same jolt. Maybe when I fell in love with Twitter and realized in an instant that I just tweeted as much as I wanted and no one could stop me; From the first moment I had my own blog on the internet and I freed myself from any type of editorial restriction.
