As one unintended, unexpected consequence of attending the tech expos, I’ve achieved a definite level of geekiness — which makes me, given my chronological age, a geezer geek. I don’t feel especially geezerish, nor for that matter particularly geeky. But I can converse with segments of the tech crowd and understand much of what they say; and I find myself explaining technical issues to people less versed in these matters than I, who seem to find those distillations useful. Who’d have thunk it? […]
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The steadily shrinking size of all electronic gizmos, with the consequent vulnerability to theft, loss, and misplacement, will lead to subcutaneous implantation thereof in the foreseeable future. The nanotech breakthrough that has enabled the use of living cells — including human cells — as data storage and transmission units certainly places this possibility visibly on the event horizon. […] |
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