I have all the technology I need

Tuesday, 31 March 2009
Sitting on a bus travelling through Cambridge I got to thinking that I am now at a stage where I have all the technology I need and I can't think of any new device or software I will see and covet.

With the advent of cloud computing in the last year and the launch of Microsoft's Live Mesh I can now synchronise all my computers and my phone and access my files online. That's that box ticked. I can download free versions of Visual Studio and SQL Server, so that's pretty much all I need to build sites. And now that software virtualisation is more commonplace I can rent a virtual server from the lovely people at Memset for a fraction of the cost of a dedicated hardware server.

Using my phone I can surf the web, twitter, blog, email, take photos, listen to music and podcasts, wherever I am. It even has TomTom built in so I can find my way home at the end of the day. It's pretty cool sci-fi stuff when you think about it.

Using my Xbox and Vista PC I can record TV, listen to music and look at photos synced via Live Mesh from my laptop and phone. I can also play games against people from all over the World with Xbox Live.

Of course there are still niggles; the missing software feature, the obscure error message. But we learn to live with them, to work around them and, hopefully, to fix them. It's all part of being technology literate.

Modern technology should create new ways of life and business. Whether it has or not I'm not so sure. But I'm sitting in my garden finishing off this blog post that I started on a bus, so I guess that's partial proof.

So, until the next big thing comes along, I'm all teched-up thankyou very much.

(The Simpsons style small print: Other operating systems, software & hardware are available.)

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