PursueGreatness

Remember this boat anchor?

Barely 30 years ago, I was first introduced to a computer, a Tandy TRS80, from Radio Shack. Several had been purchased for our school at a whopping cost of $1200.00 per computer. They were from the future at the time, and yet it is incredible to me that throughout the course of the last 30 years we have come so far. There is more computing power in any simple electronic toy that a 3 yr old would use today than a TRS80, and is that a floppy drive. Go ahead and explain that along with LP’s to your kids.

Computers moved into the home and progressed, until the internet came and told us that there was more out there for us. Arrogance is the belief that you know everything and having wisdom means that you accept that there is always more to learn.

Moore’s law, that ‘you should be able to to double the number of transistors on a circuit board for the same cost every 18 months’ has certainly held true although geometric progression makes it unlikely to last forever even figuratively. Now there are somewhere near 1.5 Billion internet users, 150+Million webpages, and that is increasing faster than ever as people adopt the technology globally. Freedom of information has become an omnipresent fact, not a right. As if China thinks it can keep this sort of stuff out with the Great Firewall. I truly believe that we are on the cusp of a revolution in education and information that rivals the birth of the internet itself. This revolution is being driven by social media, or Web2.0, and wi-fi access. Who knows, we might actually be headlong in the revolution now. Catch up time…

 Steven Davidson – Pursuit Placement Group