old steel
12th September 2014, 09:58 AM
You don’t need a smartphone, because you have no friends, and really not much of a life. How many numbers you got stored in that tracphone? Do you have only one phone for the two of you? That’s as archaic as a couple sharing an email address.
Question is, how many cpu’s/electrical switches do you have in all that crap you hauled across the country? The name of the game is chip reduction. The apple watch is not a watch. It is the interface to the computer called an iPhone that goes in your pocket or elsewhere. The new iPhone has more computing power and storage and connectivity than the first 3 computers you owned, combined. Maybe 10 times more. Like I said, there are people in the world that could replace all that crap you transported with an iPad, keyboard, smartphone and a Bluetooth headset.
Why do I need a watch? Truth is, I don’t.
If you had any readers under 30 before today’s rant, you don’t any more. Not because they don’t like you, but because you are irrelevant to their lives. The only advice you have is make more than you spend, but you can’t even tell us where/how to keep it safe.
Years ago, anthropologists realized that the Hawaiians were psychic. When they traveled thru the woods, they connected mentally to everything around them. They knew there was a deer up ahead. They knew of the bird nests in the trees above them, where there was water, where there was food, where there was something that would eat them, etc. That’s exactly how a person moves thru an urban environment with a smartphone. THAT’S Urban Survival today! Everything you want to know about your environment wherever you are is right there in the palm of your hand. And next year at this time, as developers exploit the medical interface apple has provided, it will tell you pretty much anything you want/need to know about your internal environment as well.
And what you put into that internal environment. Scanners that will scan your plate and monitor your nutrients, and smart cups that monitor and report on what you ingest. How much exercise you need, etc. And the smartphone will eventually have the ability control everything in your life that uses electricity. No more keys, no more switches, no more walking to the fridge to see what’s in it, no more getting up to turn off the burner under the pot. No more wondering how much gas is in the car, or how many miles you can drive before you need fuel.
And these devices will be voice driven. You will talk to them and they will talk to you.
Basically, the entire repository of human knowledge will be in your hand. It’s called a watch, because anything people put on their wrist that tells time is called a watch. As phones get larger, they become more inconvenient to carry and access quickly. But this “watch” will turn into (your) access to the world, and your control over your world.
For some strange reason, I don’t find it unusual (for an American) that you make your living writing about a culture and a financial system in which you don’t even participate (except for paying your extorted protection money). What’s more interesting, is that you live in a place and manner where you really can’t even see it, like the nosebleed section in a stadium where most of the people are watching the game electronically. There may be a bunch of boomers like you out there, but they are more than two generations out of the current culture.
Remember how your parents used to opine about the world when they were in their sixties, and we realized that they really didn’t have a clue what they were talking about? Well, congrats, you just made the grade. There are people out there that have tried the electronics and made a decision that they were not of benefit. It doesn’t make you wiser because you didn’t spend the money to try them at all, it just makes you ignorant.
If your wife had any friends with iPhones, and she spent any quality time with them, she would have one. Same thing if she got an iPad and used it for a month. It takes a real ignoramus to use a kindle fire and think they know something about tablets. Amazon/eBay is flooded with “refurbished” and used kindles. These are from people who returned them because the kindle experience sucks. But how would you know? There’s more to today’s electronics than just a business deal. Being super practical about everything comes from two sources. Being poor, and being old. Its known as a “second world” life. It’s why my wife and I got iPhones this year. We didn’t want the complexity to overwhelm us when we got too old to adapt when we really needed them. We got used older models from a couple of cycles back. It’s more smartphone than we will need in Ecuador for a few years.
And BTW, the markets you think are going to tank may dip, but only because the big guys want to shovel some more capital in, and they don’t have the habit of buying high. As Armstrong points out, the safe haven for capital in the world is getting smaller and smaller. USA equities are the last stop, and we will see more and more desperate money pouring in to that cesspool. Not because there is a hope of making money, it’s simply the safest place left. Pretty pathetic state of affairs when there are no bonds anybody wants to own.
Have a magic brownie for me, and get some good sleep.
And stop by an Apple store, and say hello to the culture you swim in. But watch a few apple ads first, because it’s not in what you can see, it’s in the experience. Like going on vacation.
That’s how it looks from here.
http://urbansurvival.com/coping-apple-strudel-coffee-and-bruce-the-critic/
Question is, how many cpu’s/electrical switches do you have in all that crap you hauled across the country? The name of the game is chip reduction. The apple watch is not a watch. It is the interface to the computer called an iPhone that goes in your pocket or elsewhere. The new iPhone has more computing power and storage and connectivity than the first 3 computers you owned, combined. Maybe 10 times more. Like I said, there are people in the world that could replace all that crap you transported with an iPad, keyboard, smartphone and a Bluetooth headset.
Why do I need a watch? Truth is, I don’t.
If you had any readers under 30 before today’s rant, you don’t any more. Not because they don’t like you, but because you are irrelevant to their lives. The only advice you have is make more than you spend, but you can’t even tell us where/how to keep it safe.
Years ago, anthropologists realized that the Hawaiians were psychic. When they traveled thru the woods, they connected mentally to everything around them. They knew there was a deer up ahead. They knew of the bird nests in the trees above them, where there was water, where there was food, where there was something that would eat them, etc. That’s exactly how a person moves thru an urban environment with a smartphone. THAT’S Urban Survival today! Everything you want to know about your environment wherever you are is right there in the palm of your hand. And next year at this time, as developers exploit the medical interface apple has provided, it will tell you pretty much anything you want/need to know about your internal environment as well.
And what you put into that internal environment. Scanners that will scan your plate and monitor your nutrients, and smart cups that monitor and report on what you ingest. How much exercise you need, etc. And the smartphone will eventually have the ability control everything in your life that uses electricity. No more keys, no more switches, no more walking to the fridge to see what’s in it, no more getting up to turn off the burner under the pot. No more wondering how much gas is in the car, or how many miles you can drive before you need fuel.
And these devices will be voice driven. You will talk to them and they will talk to you.
Basically, the entire repository of human knowledge will be in your hand. It’s called a watch, because anything people put on their wrist that tells time is called a watch. As phones get larger, they become more inconvenient to carry and access quickly. But this “watch” will turn into (your) access to the world, and your control over your world.
For some strange reason, I don’t find it unusual (for an American) that you make your living writing about a culture and a financial system in which you don’t even participate (except for paying your extorted protection money). What’s more interesting, is that you live in a place and manner where you really can’t even see it, like the nosebleed section in a stadium where most of the people are watching the game electronically. There may be a bunch of boomers like you out there, but they are more than two generations out of the current culture.
Remember how your parents used to opine about the world when they were in their sixties, and we realized that they really didn’t have a clue what they were talking about? Well, congrats, you just made the grade. There are people out there that have tried the electronics and made a decision that they were not of benefit. It doesn’t make you wiser because you didn’t spend the money to try them at all, it just makes you ignorant.
If your wife had any friends with iPhones, and she spent any quality time with them, she would have one. Same thing if she got an iPad and used it for a month. It takes a real ignoramus to use a kindle fire and think they know something about tablets. Amazon/eBay is flooded with “refurbished” and used kindles. These are from people who returned them because the kindle experience sucks. But how would you know? There’s more to today’s electronics than just a business deal. Being super practical about everything comes from two sources. Being poor, and being old. Its known as a “second world” life. It’s why my wife and I got iPhones this year. We didn’t want the complexity to overwhelm us when we got too old to adapt when we really needed them. We got used older models from a couple of cycles back. It’s more smartphone than we will need in Ecuador for a few years.
And BTW, the markets you think are going to tank may dip, but only because the big guys want to shovel some more capital in, and they don’t have the habit of buying high. As Armstrong points out, the safe haven for capital in the world is getting smaller and smaller. USA equities are the last stop, and we will see more and more desperate money pouring in to that cesspool. Not because there is a hope of making money, it’s simply the safest place left. Pretty pathetic state of affairs when there are no bonds anybody wants to own.
Have a magic brownie for me, and get some good sleep.
And stop by an Apple store, and say hello to the culture you swim in. But watch a few apple ads first, because it’s not in what you can see, it’s in the experience. Like going on vacation.
That’s how it looks from here.
http://urbansurvival.com/coping-apple-strudel-coffee-and-bruce-the-critic/