The Golden age of computers!

Let's jump ahead in time from the introduction of the gigantic, two story house sized, reel to reel computers that needed about two hours, 1.21 "Gigawatts" of electricity and 10,000 punch cards to calculate the answer to "2+2" and begin talking about the modern computer design we have in our homes today.

I can remember that home computers needed to be booted from the initial DOS screen and it took about a half hour and the correct string of commands that needed to be retyped about ten times because you would miss a backslash or a letter just to get to the program screen you wanted to work with.

It didn't take long before there were smaller monitors and giant flat towers available for any consumer that was willing to dish out $3000 - $5,000 for a 233 MHz microprocessor, a gigantic two megabyte hard drive, a 5 1/2" floppy drive, and even the new modem capabilities that will allow you to link to another computer that had the same features which was about 3 in the world at the time.

During the early stages of marketing home PCs, It was a machine that people that could afford it would brag about as if it was the end of all technology. Now that we have become use to computer technology having a shelf-life of about twenty minutes after it is purchased, I can look back and laugh at those "brag about technology" people.

I still remember dial-up in it's early development was considered a really fast communications technology and after just waiting only ten minutes to make a connection only to be dropped when a telemarketer calls you to pitch aluminum siding for your dog's house.

With the progress of the cable connection, DSL and now wireless T-1 connectivity and FIOS, do we really need to get billions of pieces of information in a nano second to go any faster?

Today's computers are extremely fast and efficient, but I can speak for all of us when I say still want more added to this already maxed out technology.

I guess just being people in general, it's in our nature to believe we can have something that can be much better. One of these days our technology is going to be so advanced that we are going to be sitting in our living rooms reading a book or watching the "Boob Tube" and someone out of the blue will drop us a random "e-brain" message loaded with thousands of advertisements right into our thoughts without the use of a computer at all.

Do you think computer technology is advancing too quickly? What other technologies do you think can possibly be added to the modern home computer?