andrewpitchford.com » Youtube http://www.andrewpitchford.com Developing Communities Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:39:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Back to an Apple Future http://www.andrewpitchford.com/2011/10/back-to-an-apple-future/ http://www.andrewpitchford.com/2011/10/back-to-an-apple-future/#comments Thu, 20 Oct 2011 04:52:36 +0000 apitchford http://www.andrewpitchford.com/2011/10/20/back-to-an-apple-future/ I was recently sent a link to Kim Komando’s  TVKim that showed a of the ‘imagineering’ going on at back in the late 80s and early 90s. While the below is made up of material from around 1987 and 1992 it still makes a powerful statement on what can be achieved when we have a for the . Enjoy this little technological prophetic ride.

More videos from Apple’s past promotions can be found here. Click Here

Its interesting that when you read the comments under the video in YouTube you find statements like this.

No they got it a MONTH out. A few weeks to be precise.
The video asks for a file 5 years back on deforestation, and the article was in 2006. 2006 + 5 = 2011. On the Knowledge Navigator calendar, the month happens to be September. This video was based in September 2011. It? was made in 1987. Siri was released October 2011. AMAZING. AMAZZZIIINNNGGGG.
Apple were a few weeks off, and they also knew deforestation was going to be an issue today. Apple is from the future?

"You'll hardly be able to? notice you're online"
Well, I sure notice when I'm not.

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Next time you find yourself attracted to that product launch, the touched up CGI colour of the new faux metal facia on a v3.0 body ask yourself ‘Why?’ So many gadgets end up at the bottom of an office drawer only one year into the relationship. Hey, many even have a good battery yearning to be worn down. But no, we walk away from tried and true business solutions for the sake of a trip to the App store.

I’m thinking of starting a BGC 12 step program to Better Gadget Commitment. Look at that phone, that camera, that phone camera and ask yourself how you would feel to be shunned for the sake of 1.2 measly extra mega-pixels?

It seems we ask for things we aren’t willing to do ourselves. Somewhere out there are gadgets willing to commit. Technology with more heart than Reagan’s pacemaker are willing to step back into this post Y2K world and sing. Before you go out there and spend a dime on plastic glitz, without the five year replacement warranty you deserve, ask yourself how I would feel to sit in the bottom drawer waiting for the company of this years model in another twelve months.

For me I’m sticking with my iPhone 3G. After all I can wait. Really. I can!

 

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Feel free to take a walk through the house. Sorry we haven’t tidied up before you came :-)

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