My new iPod Touch 32GB arrived yesterday. It’s a remarkable piece of technology. I remember our first family computer, perhaps only 20 years ago. It had no hard drive—we had to switch out 5.25” floppy disks to do anything. When we did eventually get a computer with a hard drive, its capacity was only 40 MB (it was a Wang. Anyone remember them?). At the time, that was pretty good. 32GB would have been incomprehensible at the time. I would have wondered why anyone would ever need that much space.
Now, I have in my hand a device that appears to be a little less than a centimeter thick. It contains a fair chunk of my music, also video, connects to the internet, allows me to browse the web, get email, you name it. Really, the advances are nothing short of miraculous.
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