Are These Good Reasons to Embrace Technology?
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It took me more than three years to convince my parents to give up dial up, and move to a better connection. I blame myself, for not giving them enough reasons to embrace technology. Here is an excellent list sent in by a community member, with five of the reasons you should embrace the newest technology.
- Efficiency With the development of technology, the speed at which we can achieve our goals is greatly increased. Processing data and transferring information has never been faster, and we are able to access information much quicker and with greater ease. Data storage and retrieval has developed so much that it’s almost hard to believe that we were once carrying 1.44Mb floppies. Those floppies held very little data in comparison to todays’ hundreds of gigabytes of storage capacity on backup drives and servers. Also, the physical size of these storage devices has reduced as well. Can you imagine 500GB of 1.44Mb floppies?
- Connectivity Connecting with people all over the world is by far more achievable with the development of the humble telephone, fax, cellphone and the Internet. Apps such as Email, VoIP, and Instant Messaging have made things so much easier. Snail mail used to take as many as 3-4 days even in your own state or city. It now usually take 1-2 days, and and a parcel can be sent to another country in as little as 5-8 business days (less if you chose more expensive courier services etc.). Email is almost instantaneous. VoIP is becoming a very popular way of keeping in touch with people all over the world and is extremely cost effective. If you are already paying for Internet service, then you basically have a communications network at your disposal for free. There are plenty of ways to connect through many different VoIP companies/networks. Technology in general has become more affordable for the average user.
- Productivity With the amount of technology on the market - both in hardware and software - the productivity rate has increased tremendously. Desktop PCs have become more powerful and more affordable to the average user, allowing more people to be connected to others. Portable computers and Internet available almost anywhere at any time for those that need it enables work to be done “on the road” so to speak. Applications and tools from word processing to music and film editing have become far more sophisticated… yet more user-friendly. This allows more people access to a multitude of ways to get things done. Mobile devices like cellphones and PDA’s allow for more mobility to the user. The term “technology” does not only refer to computers and Email. With the development of the computer, other technologies such as cars, ships , buildings and manufacturing/ production have increased dramatically. For example, in Beijing a container is loaded from a truck to a ship every 30 seconds. This would never have been possible 30 years ago.
- Comfortability The developments in technology in the home and at work have made our lives much more comfortable, and enable us to have things from light and heat… to watching the latest movies or shopping from home. Traveling has become more efficient and more pleasurable as airliners have in-flight entertainment. If we dont like what they’re showing, we can always plug ourselves into our mp3 player or other mobile device. The next development in airline travel is the exploration of Wi-Fi in-flight for users to access the Internet.
- Gadgets are cool!!! There are literally thousands of gadgets and devices that we dont really need. Us gadget lovers want to buy all of them. Well… a lot of them. We don’t crave them because we really need them, we want them just because they are cool to play with.
- New Standard In Internet Mail.
- Xtreme Conversions: Hot New Technology. Very High Conversions.
- Listen And Grow Rich.
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30 Comments
hohahohi
March 20th, 2008
at 12:56pm
nice! It was interesting watching it live too!
newyorkfish
March 20th, 2008
at 12:58pm
Wow, you look so natural and speak so well.
You are completely opposite on CNN.
This is the Chris I know !! :o)
FLCProductions
March 20th, 2008
at 12:58pm
cool
easybuckets
March 20th, 2008
at 1:10pm
nice, currently embracing as we speak!
jthermane24
March 20th, 2008
at 1:14pm
my hand crank mp3 player…love it
jthermane24
March 20th, 2008
at 1:22pm
also thanks for the screen cleaning i needed that…. :)
funnyent
March 20th, 2008
at 1:25pm
They still had dial up last year?
mbuckingham24
March 20th, 2008
at 1:39pm
Not counting formatting on the floppy disk, 500GB is 3,477,223 1.44MB floppy disks.. WOW
mbuckingham24
March 20th, 2008
at 1:43pm
correction… mistyped.. it’s 347,223floppies… and I like PB, good of Chris to get it off my screen.. thx : )
sfbuchmiller
March 20th, 2008
at 3:36pm
Anyone who has telephone service from the government can use dial up.
khmerboy6969
March 20th, 2008
at 5:34pm
Thanks for cleaning my screen there. Appreciate it. LoL ;)
AllUrUtubeRbelong2me
March 20th, 2008
at 9:41pm
Please Chris don’t ever make those smacking sounds again.
funnyent
March 20th, 2008
at 11:51pm
O yeah, I forgot about that. Sorry
VOIP
March 21st, 2008
at 3:36am
than three years to convince my parents to give up dial up, and move to a better connection. I blame myself, for not giving them enough reasons to embrace technology. Here is an excellent list sent in by a community member, wi … Original post byChris Pirillo ()
Phone, VoIP, Hosting
March 21st, 2008
at 4:32am
Are These Good Reasons to Embrace Technology? Posted in Uncategorized at 2:36 am byJenJenwrote an interesting post today on Here’s a quick excerpt Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed It took me more than three years to convince my parents to give up dial up, and move to a better connection. I blame myself, for not
bugsoup
March 21st, 2008
at 4:54am
no, (500 GB)*(1024 MB/GB)/(1.44 MB)=355,555 floppies. 1.44 MB is the size of a formatted floppy
bugsoup
March 21st, 2008
at 5:00am
whoops, sorry, i think you were right about the final number, but not about the formatted size of a floppy
Windows Vista Torrent
March 21st, 2008
at 9:21am
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JdMetal
March 21st, 2008
at 10:46am
Huhuhuh……back in 2003………i never have problem to convince my father to setup ADSL……
DrWho
March 21st, 2008
at 1:04pm
Technology evolves rapidly now days, i wonder if there is there is going to be a limit in how evolve it will become, maybe we will evolve so much so that we don’t need technology or our physical body’s.
Do you guys have one of those parents that think that it was better when they where kids, i do, my father doesn’t even have a cellphone, he always say Why should i get a cellphone, i have no need for one.
And when i show him how to do some stuff on the Computer he forgets it fast and next time i have to show him the same thing over again and explain it over and over and over again.
Michael Rivera (mrivera1)
March 21st, 2008
at 6:21pm
Technology is something that one has to embrace, because it will only become more and more prominent in our lives. If you don’t start to embrace technology, then it will eventually take over your life even though you don’t want it too…and that is a bad introduction to tech.
Fedex
March 21st, 2008
at 7:11pm
Hey i loves these tips there great. My grandparents just recently upgraded to high speed but they dont use there computer much. From what i remember they use to have an old computer that could barely run dial up. There probley just going to half to get use to the new and upcomping technology. And yes your reasons for upgrading is 100% cent true. Rock on chirs rock on
Mozillarama
March 21st, 2008
at 7:15pm
Thats one difference between this generation and our parents. We will always strive to be on top of technological advances of the future. The last generation hasn’t grabbed hold of this idea quite as much seeing all the major advances that have been made in just the last 2 decades.
cyberQuark
March 21st, 2008
at 7:19pm
In an era of rapidly surfacing technologies, one would be hard pressed to find reasons not to embrace these advancements.
I’ve converted many to the realm of modern technology (dial-up to cable, wired to wireless, standard to high definition, etc…).
In my experience, even after convincing them to switch to better technology, they are still skeptical before they make the switch.
Most are simply afraid of the change from something familiar to something foreign. However, once they first load a web page from a cable modem, experience life without the hassle of wires, or see the actual difference between standard and high definition, they never question their suspicions again. I’ve always seen this kind of progression be for the betterment of the synergy between society and the presence of the information age.
To me, this is just more proof that technology is something to be embraced.
warefly
March 21st, 2008
at 8:59pm
My mom wants to be a cool mom….So she tries to learn about computers since she knows i love them, but usually it ends on something bad happening. My tip to add here would be to try to have someone teach about the new technology, before you go out and buy something new to be updated with the lastest stuff.
It makes it easier on you! and everyone else!
NJ Tech Geek
March 22nd, 2008
at 12:31am
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dannylberry2
March 22nd, 2008
at 5:45pm
o god
Seanuk
March 23rd, 2008
at 8:38am
couldnt they print out the email and post it! lol
masterOFpuppets06
March 25th, 2008
at 1:29pm
I dont care what you think,,,I still love floppies
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