Larry Magid: Tech can be boring, but it’s getting interesting

As someone who has been writing about tech for more than 40 years, I’ve seen ebbs and flows when it comes to how interesting it is. I have to admit, there have been times when I’ve found it boring, but then something new comes along to pique my interest. That’s happening again.When I first started my career, the most popular PC on the market was the Apple II, which was exciting until it became commonplace. Then the IBM PC came along and added at least a little excitement, but not much.

Despite its interesting initial design, the early Macs didn’t sell all that well, so, for years, the PC industry was dominated mostly by battles between IBM and the many companies that made what we called “IBM clones,” machines that ran MS-DOS that were almost indistinguishable from each other.

Cell phones continued to be interesting as they got significantly smaller and better. The Motorola StarTAC was a particularly good phone because of its compact size. Other things that made tech interesting included the advent of broadband, which made it possible to be online without having to dial-in and without having to wait forever for graphics and even text to display. It also made it possible to stream video, which is yet another very interesting tech development. The Mosaic browser made the internet and the World Wide Web very interesting and, thanks to broadband, easily accessible.

Even hardware is starting to get interesting again. Microsoft just introduced Copilot+ PC, which the company claims, “are the fastest, most intelligent Windows PCs ever built,” adding “the most advanced AI models, Copilot+ PCs will enable you to do things you can’t on any other PC.” I haven’t tested these new PCs, but I’m looking forward to finding out what their new Neural Processing Unit will bring to the AI party.

Source: Tech Daily Report (techdailyreport.net)

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