Well…still can’t get my head to think about anything political today so I think I’m just going to do a little exercise that I call “I remember when”. I remember when there was just NASA that launched satellites and people into space here in the US. I just read an article that said that by the end of the year, there will be 28 companies that are selling access to space…I can only name a few of them so I think I’ll have to do some research on the others. I can remember when the only telephone was that black thing that sat on the table next to a chair in the living room…and it had a dial on it that you had to stick your finger in to turn it….I can even remember party lines that had more than one family on the line and you had to listen to see if the ring was yours. I also remember having to remember phone numbers or carry a little black book with them in it. Now, I’ve got my little computer sitting on the counter next to my head that gives me access to the entire world. For the last one, I remember when there were no computers other than the huge, room sized ones that cost millions of dollars and took days to make calculations that my phone can do in a millisecond or so. My phone even has almost a billion times more memory than the computer used to help run the Apollo moon landings…which had a memory that was only 2048 words….I wonder if the kids being born now will see the same kind of progress that I’ve seen in my lifetime?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Well…still can’t get my head to think about anything political today so I think I’m just going to do a little exercise that I call “I remember when”. I remember when there was just NASA that launched satellites and people into space here in the US. I just read an article that said that by … Continue reading I remember when…<\/span>