nik newark

minaturisation....

50 years ago, computers were the size of rooms. 100 years ago, cameras were also pretty big (and in the days of the camera obscura, were also room sized).
Encyclopaedias took up entire w
alls of the drawing room, telephones were made of hulking great chunks of Bakelite (with rooms full of women armed with headsets and patch cords), maps were huge things that were invariably out of date, the Tv was a piece of enormous furniture with a tiny screen, and we made our own entertainment. That were fotty year ago, that were.
Anuway, the point is, is that all of these things can now be done on a tiny iPhone, smaller than my hand. So, I confidently predict that due to continuing minaturisation, phones in 50 years time will include a Large Hadron Collider. I mentioned this theory to the attendant in the gym, who looked at me blankly. "why would anyone want to do that?" he asked. Because we can, because we can. Besides, it'd be pretty cool to create black holes in your pocket...

Incidentally, I am using an iPhone to write this blog, courtesy of a piece of software called iBlog. Rubbish name, but seems to do the trick quite nicely.

And the photo illustrates what a great idea fish and chips in rolled up newspaper is for littleys. Ee! It were just like fotty year ago. Posted by nikn