Hornius Emeritus
2,500+ Posts
The main point of this article, that Logitech has made it's one billionth computer mouse, is interesting.
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But what I find fascinating is the whole arc of this technology not only within my lifetime but within a portion of my lifetime.
When I was born, there were no pc's and, of course, no mice. Now there are more than a billion of them on the planet. And, according to the article, they will stop being manufactured within a few years as we move towards touch screen technology.
They are like the 8 track tapes and 8 track tape players that litter our landfills.
We, as a society, create sophisticated technology that would absolutely stun our forefathers, use it up, then discard it when the next more efficient way to do something comes along.
Of course, it's always been this way. People discarded their buggies when the automobile came along. But its interesting to see something, like the mouse, come from nowhere, be used by the billions, thrown away, and forgotten.
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But what I find fascinating is the whole arc of this technology not only within my lifetime but within a portion of my lifetime.
When I was born, there were no pc's and, of course, no mice. Now there are more than a billion of them on the planet. And, according to the article, they will stop being manufactured within a few years as we move towards touch screen technology.
They are like the 8 track tapes and 8 track tape players that litter our landfills.
We, as a society, create sophisticated technology that would absolutely stun our forefathers, use it up, then discard it when the next more efficient way to do something comes along.
Of course, it's always been this way. People discarded their buggies when the automobile came along. But its interesting to see something, like the mouse, come from nowhere, be used by the billions, thrown away, and forgotten.
