Ask a computer what location is my next meeting, or when is my next meeting, and the computer will respond. 9 languages.
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Perhaps the reason I feel quite so liberated from the present while more and more attached, not to individually-recalled "good old days", but to a collectively attested and ever-present past, is because the hard drive of my computer is overloaded with digital images of the places I've been and the people I've met, all of them time-coded to a 10th of a second.
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But one computer expert is making my dreams of simultaneous blogging-eating-caffeinating sound a bit nightmarish.
My computer is an overgrown swamp of files, including multiple drafts and notes for almost every article I have written over five years.
Working in the computer industry, my work is focused on technology that has the half-life of sushi.
The only time I really experience any self-reflection these days is when my computer sleeps and my screen goes dark.
Working on an iPad on my lap is a wholly different experience than working at my computer: It never felt like work.
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The final myth is the one that leads to the most pronounced false sense of security - that my make of computer or operating system is not vulnerable to security problems.
Right now, I stay away from TV because it has hard to find what I want and so much content is instead available on my computer and iPhone.
On a recent US Airways flight, my computer was slower than it is at home and dawdled a bit as I searched Stubhub for tickets to baseball's spring training.
Plus, the Air is a fully functional computer for the rest of my needs.
The platform, which over a desktop computer is essentially a free and unlimited iTunes account, plays for about eight hours a day over my computer speakers.
The shifting user interface is a training nightmare for my non-computer savvy managers.
Heck, they have been talking about how computers and evolving computer storage is going to eliminate the need for paper, and my filing cabinets are still bulging.
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As one of my computer science friends put it, privacy through obscurity is a poor model.
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My computer hummed with searches including why the United States is really committed to stay in Afghanistan until 2014.
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Which is why I will be taking my presentation on my computer, putting it on an external drive, posting it to an FTP server for a colleague to download and putting my FedEx account number on speed dial in case a copy needs to get to the hotel overnight.
Mind you, it is my fault - I made her angry by adjusting a slider on a computer screen.
"They kept on telling me that my name is common to some name that has popped up on the computer, so they need to follow procedure, " he said.
We all fall prey to this, I write about it all the time and have few readers who are mathematicians who read my blog and agree that today with using computer algorithms to spin numbers that math is not 100% reliable any more on proving accuracy.
My interest is that there could indeed be a good finance, as opposed to computer business, reason to do so.
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In computer science, the concept of computers built into everything is called ubiquitous computing, pervasive computing, ambient intelligence or, my favorite label: everyware.
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