It was the late 70s, and this concept of a personal computer was approaching a difficult coming-of-age. Everyone knew that the computer would change everything, but the race was on to define how that would look. In the labs and offices of Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) a group of engineers and scientists pulled [...]
I have a young friend, let’s call him Adam, since that’s his name, and we’re calling him young, but at 22 he’s not really young any more and I only use the word because to admit he’s no longer young would be to admit that I am getting old, who enjoys a good debate. I [...]
Continue reading about Embracing My Inner Geek: Part 4 – Digital Toys
I had another topic in mind for part 3, but a reader asked a pretty interesting question in response to part 2 that got me thinking. It was so good a question, in fact, that I’ve spent most of my idle CPU cycles this morning formulating a response: How do you think someone who did [...]
Continue reading about Embracing My Inner Geek: Part 3 – Education
Hi Slashdot, read this, woulda ya? Did you ever see that one Friends episode where they make up a game where they test their knowledge of each other? In one of the rounds, the girls are asked what Chandler does for a living, and the answer they come up with is “transponster!” Which of course [...]
Continue reading about Embracing My Inner Geek: Part 2 – The Job
We heard a sermon a couple weeks ago about giftedness — about focusing on your primary giftedness, because that’s where God wants to use you most. Whether I like it or not (and sometimes I don’t) my primary giftedness is technology. Despite everything else I think I am, or wish I was, there will always [...]
Continue reading about Embracing My Inner Geek: Part 1 – The User Group
