Apple Watch
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The Apple Watch began what many referred to as Apple's entrance into the "wearables" market. This category represented technology that the user wears or uses on their person. Examples of this type of device include jewelry, accessories, medical devices and clothing. In the case of the Apple Watch, this represents both jewelry as well as medical or fitness devices. Initially these types of devices were focused on fitness with brands such as Fit Bit and Garmin who catered to the active life style to count calories, distance, and other statistics for activities such as walking and running. Most saw this market as small and very specialized.
iPod
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I've always been interested in carrying music or sound along with me as I travel. In college I was one of the earlier adopters of the Sony Walkman (I'm really showing my age here). This was amazing to be able to take along a couple of cassette tapes with me to listen to while walking to class. The inherit issues with analog audio were outweighed by the convenience of being portable.
iPhone
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The evolution of communications is progressing at breakaway speed. During my lifetime I witnessed incredible changes that leave me pondering where this medium will go next. To give you an example let me chronicle how phone communications have changed.
As a child growing up in Idaho we had one telephone in our house. It was a black rotary phone mounted to the wall in our kitchen. Our neighborhood still utilized the “party line” system. For those of you unaware of what a “party line” is, everyone with a geographical area shared a common phone line.
iPad
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In 1993 I was excited as Apple introduced the Newton MessagePad. This was an incredible handheld device that allowed the user to interact with it via a stylus on a touch sensitive display.
Cars
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When I was relatively young, my Aunt Janet had gotten married to a guy who was in the armed forces. He was briefly stationed in Idaho so Aunt Jan would drive over to see us and sometimes she would take me back with her for a day or two. Once she comes by and she is driving a 1967 Camaro. It was white with red stripes and had the biggest rear tires I had ever seen on a car. It literally looked like one of my Hot Wheels cars.
Technology
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I've always been fascinated by technology since I was very young. Initially I gazed upon it was awe and wonder but that was quickly replaced with curiosity and how I could harness it to change my life and hopefully the world. I naively first equated technology to computers. Granted, computers are technology but it goes so much deeper than that.
Smart Home
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Like many kids my age, growing up Saturday mornings meant getting up early and watching cartoons on television until my parents would get up. We had the channel line-up memorized and could tell you exactly what was on every channel for a given time slot until noon when kids programming would give way usually to the Baseball Game of the Week (another program I would never miss).
Software Languages
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Linguistics is the scientific study of language. Linguists look at the cognitive, social, cultural, psychological, environmental, biological, literary, grammatical, and structural aspects of a language to understand the history and usage of a language. Although a lot of this study is theoretical, it also includes the descriptive study of how a language is used and how it fulfills the communication needs of the people using it. This study has been historically focused on the written and spoken words of a language. I propose that linguistics include programming and software languages as well.
