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The Lion King | 37
Personal Computing
and
the Coming Change
LK Gadgets
By Michael Odusanya
I
remember word processing was done
then with Word Perfect 5.1 But I was
young and only the games mattered.
To run Pacman or Prince of Persia one
had to type in a command in Ms-Dos
and then another. There was no Mouse
- nothing to click.
I remember that day I got back home
from school to meet Windows 3.1
Installed in the Packard Bell System.
The computer didn’t boot straight into
windows though - you had to type in a
command from Ms-Dos to get into the
windows environment. Still there was no
mouse and the function keys (F1-F12)
were Kings – taking actions from the
top row.
But that was then because afterwards,
Windows 95 came and 98 and the Mil-
lennial Me - interesting times.
In the new millennium - with sleeker
computers and the popularization of
laptops, the idea of personal comput-
ing changed a bit - we could now carry
computers around and even had WIFI
and CDMA internet access. Our com-
puters were smaller, had batteries and
could be folded into two - everybody
thought it was amazing. The cybercafés
began to die one after the other.
The idea of personal computing is ap-
proaching that point of major change
again. Laptops, Netbooks, Smartbooks,
Tablets, Phablets – all are trying to hit
the evasive but revolutionary nail where
it matters the most.
Computers purchased this month will
have screens that feel your touch, soft-
ware that knows where to get and buy
food up-to 20miles away. They will dual
boot desktop and mobile OSs hence
have detachable monitors to carry
around to take and share pictures with -
all with enough battery juice to last the
entire Lord of the Rings Collection or
your entire Evergreen music collection
while also reviewing office documents
over a transatlantic flight.
The philosophy of the very well ad-
vanced and eager telephony industry
integrated with the over bloomed com-
puter technology industry matters the
most in this move - driven by the likes of
Google, Microsoft, Apple and the so-
cial media software army - pushing the
afore-known boundaries of innovation,
application and usability in delivering
solutions to the new problems of the
advanced world.
Until that far time when man becomes
one with machine - this next revolution
is the one we await.