sparkling blues
Technology 2.0 is a hallmark of our digital age. Nearly everything is reaching it, too, with the possible exception of automobile technology. 2.0 means building upon prior success, the weakling 1.0 products having already been eliminated thanks to digital natural selection. Once a technology or tech-related product reaches 2.0, the potential for discovering a stable userbase and wider consumption is realized.
While I happen to embrace many 1.0 opportunities (maybe someday a 0.0 chance), I am typically stricken with waiting for 2.0 because a great deal of electronics purchases are poor personal investments. I patiently wait for 2.0 knowing that jumping onboard the 1.0 train could cause me a few more calls to tech support than I was anticipating. Even after the 2.0 announcement, I hang on to the edge of my seat allowing the few go-getters to discover the weak spots in the ice. We learn from others’ mistakes, of course.
So, eight years after its formal launch and two after its 2.0 release, I am going to submit myself to Bluetooth, the wireless technology I never quite trusted. Wireless keyboard setups did not interest me, so using Bluetooth is that arena was not going to happen. PDA syncing was not necessary. And cell phone syncing… well
We finally swapped out our cellular provider after a stable, 3+ year-long relationship. No one could possibly convince me to manually enter 150 numbers into my phonebook, so I am outsourcing that job to the Bluetooth technology embedded into this RAZR V3c.
To me, this change of heart requires a great deal of disarming my misconceptions and reconciliation with a technology that I, for so long, regarded as inferior to the character-building effects of manual operation. Bluetooth 2.0 is glorious and nearly as simple to follow along with as the everyday WiFi technology I am used to. My biases often hold be back from too fully embracing something new, but I have found no qualms in allowing my PowerBook to devote some battery life towards Bluetooth.
Let this be a field day for the slew of engineers and designers pioneering the 2.0 principles.
And I just read over this entry and discovered how truly serious I sound. Hmm