Moorpark College Graphic Design

My family had been pressuring me to get new cell phones since our contract was about to expire. Our batteries were in desperate need of replacement, but I was holding out, putting off the inevitable decisions and expense one encounters when upgrading to new technology. The truth was, I could not enter into a new, two-year phone contract knowing full well that it would be 730 days…24 four long months before I would own an iPhone.

Three days ago the family backed me into a corner. It was time to enter into a new cell phone contract, and I needed to make my decision. With a gun to my head I conceded, and I am now the proud owner of a brand new iPhone. To say that the iPhone is awesome is almost an understatement. The first thing I said to myself after handling the iPhone was, “It’s Apple’s Knowledge Navigator, only palm-sized.”

I hadn’t thought about the Knowledge Navigator in ages, and I hadn’t paid too much attention to the iPhone because I wanted to wait until the hype settled. When Apple dropped the price of the iPhone to $399, I started looking and couldn’t resist the temptation. Immediately I the recognized the functionality and elegance of an Apple product. Once Apple won the right to get into music, that released the floodgates.

Flash back twenty years to Apple’s mind-blowing concept video, one of many reasons I’ve been a Mac addict the past 22 years. While we may not have mastered the same level of voice technology and artificial intelligence as that portrayed in Knowledge Navigator, no doubt we’ll be there in just a few more years…say by 2012?

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