When problems arise, I make sure I have access to a computer with an Internet connection.
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Two years old, it still has everything I need in a computer, including an ethereally comfortable keyboard.
For example, I use a task management system on my computer - can I write an app to make this easier on Glass?
Like a lot of people my age, the first computer I ever used was an Apple IIe, back in elementary school, which was full of them.
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It became clear to me in the early 1990s when for a couple of years I was a judge in the annual Loebner Prize Competition, an annual contest to find out if any computer could yet pass what is known as the Turing test: if it could fool a person into thinking it was a human.
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But the inevitable labor problems, computer meltdowns, stock price fluctuations and employee displacement (I lost a job in an airline merger, by the way) are steps on the path to an improved industry that better serves its passengers.
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Last week I popped over to Palo Alto airport in my Cessna flying carpet, sat in a corner at an ancient IBM computer and took a 60-question written quiz for my private pilot's instrument rating.
And in a conversation February 2 with an avid Facebook user, I learned that she keeps the site on her computer all day while at work and in her free time she looks at photos and checks on the evolving status of her friends.
"It's a little bit like loading software onto a computer, trying to fill my mind with all the information I need in order to be an effective Chief Constable, " he said.
An Australian girl with a pink bandanna on her head was giggling loudly at the computer behind me as I read.
At times, in 15 years covering the PC market as an analyst, I have felt like an undertaker, donning a black coat to intone respectfully on the fine qualities of yet another recently departed computer company.
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This year, I would love to attend a session run by a business person with an English Major background (instead of a PhD in Computer Science), showing what they did with Data at scale, without huge servers, without expensive software or cryptic languages.
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