As I See Tech

Apple released an ad that caused some controversy. Generally, it was hated. "What's a computer?" is almost an impossible question to hear nowadays. And it would likely be the most impossible question to hear in the future as well. The ad suggested otherwise... and that's where Apple got it all wrong.

It's surprising how you can be a tech geek and can't find anything to write about. I'm facing a blank wall right now. Nothing seems to catch my fancy. Considering CES 2018 is on-going. What's happening?!

When I tell a cable TV salesperson I don't have cable TV ever since, the next question I get is, "How are you watching TV then?" The young salesperson's face is remarkably genuinely innocent. It almost feels like I need to explain myself. It's as if, to this person, OTA TV was never invented yet.

One way to "kill" a technology is to launch it too soon. Apple's bet on 100% touchscreen smartphones back in 2007 proved that the world was ready. Although Apple was not the first in the touchscreen phone business, Apple's brave bet to venture first with touchscreen paid off. In most respects, their success was because the world was ready.

In the future, a "computer", or whatever name we'll call it, can be reduced to a ring. Yes, like the jewelry you can wear everyday. It will not have much to show on its own. But once paired with a display device or appliance, it can become everything we'll want a "personal computer" to be.

The world was shaken last week by a gloomy announcement: two security flaws were discovered that affect computers and devices down to the CPU level. Original news claimed they only affect Intel chips. Intel then said AMD and ARM-based chips are affected as well. A few admittance and denials later, one thing remained clear: the security flaws need to be dealt with ASAP.

To better manage and balance my workload, I have decided to post updates to As I See Tech twice a week on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Depending on how much free time I have, I may post more in a week. I'll continue to post updates in GitHub and NuGet, of course. Cheers!

I watched The Farthest: Voyager in Space at Netflix. All things considered, we can look back and see how much mankind has accomplished technologically. Although we're never physically out there, if you think about it, mankind has already gone beyond its reach. And it's not stopping.