one of my most Fun tech memories have to do with Project Origami. With efforts from Microsoft, Intel and others, the Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC) has been launched. Around 2006, devices that looked like full Windows machines crammed into the size of a mid-range iPad completely captivated me.
I had almost zero money at the time, so buying one of the devices was totally out of the question. One day (maybe I was looking for equipment for my father’s business), I was walking down the computing hardware aisle and, to my surprise, I saw a promotional end cap for a UMPC device.I could use A device that made me a geek over time. It was like meeting a celebrity for my teenage self.
There were other moments in my life of pure technical bliss. When a friend and I realized in high school, thanks to Gmail’s generous storage limits and my school’s reasonable internet, we ditched USB sticks altogether and emailed files to his one USB stick. I realized that you can just send with . Another from across the same table. It felt like magic to use bits instead of things I had to carry around in my pocket.
Technology, in a breathtaking and beautiful way, presents new shortcuts and new ways of thinking that were previously completely blocked. Here’s how the iPhone launch felt to highlight a familiar example of the phenomenon.
Since then, not many things have had the same impact on me. Perhaps when I fell in love with her Twitter, I quickly realized that I could just tweet as much as I wanted and no one could stop me. The first moment I had my own blog on the internet, I was freed from all kinds of publishing restrictions.
