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Cell Phones vs (or =?) Computers

Matt McDonald has written a fascinating post about not only an unprecedented trend happening today, but also about this trend’s implications. What’s the news? There are cell phones that are more powerful than the average consumer PC or Mac. What are the implications? Read A Race From Both Ends.

Obviously, one thing this leads to is a more connected world. McDonald points to some facts that blow Hillary and Obama’s meteroic rise out of the water

1. In 2001 about 120 million Americans were using cell phones.
2. As of late 2007 there was over 250 million.
3. We’re talking about a country with 300 million people.

I had previously written a post asking similar questions to the ones Matt is posing for his readers. Mine was called MySpaceBook, Killer of Jobs, and discussed both the positive and negative effects that the business section of the Sunday paper talks about. Highly automated software is replacing the concept of a workforce, at least in some areas of the tech and web “industry”. The natural panic is less jobs, but this could mean less work needing to be done, and cheaper (if not free) services. More utopian than dystopian, if you ask me.

Matt comes to similar conclusions. 1,000 years from now, historians will study our times, and call these days the most important since the Agricultural Revolution. We’re going through a peroid of amazing and rapid change. It’s not without its costs, but these will ultimately be worth the benefits to society and to too many individuals to count.

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Forget Guitar Hero, and check out the unsung type

1. A is for ADAM even though Alexander’s my last name.
2. B is for Bush, who deserves all the blame.
3. C is for Cbwm who disagrees with Plan B.
4. D is for Dan, who’s younger and wiser than me.
5. E is for easy money, cause that’s what the web’s all about.
6. F is for Forrest the Fotographer, who tends not to shout.
7. G is for Galaxian, even though he uses PHP.
8. H is for Hamesy who knows Windows like me.
9. I is for icons and web 2 point oh.
10. J is for Jamestl2, Joder and JeremyMiller whose intelligence is not slow.
11. K is for Kandi who commits random acts of kindness frequently.
12. L is for LadynRed who kills tables with efficiency.
13. M is for Meloncholy who uses Safari.
14. N is for NullPointer who could program an Atari.
15. O is for OSWebMaster who makes interesting posts.
16. P is for Praveen the mod with the most.
17. Q is for QuickTim who hasn’t posted in a while.
18. R is for Republikin who goes the extra mile.
19. S is for Seolman, St0x and Serandfae.
20. T is for Tripy and Tim Schroeder with names you can easily say.
21. U is for Usearchme who kills Google myths.
22. V is for Vangogh who writes things so wise they’ll become petroglyphs.
23. W is for Willcode4beer since Whym’s already used.
24. X is for Xprmnt who doesn’t have to sing the blues.
25. Y is a hard one so here’s the whole list.
26. Z is for Zonker720 whose wisdom is missed.