Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

Every era has its own stupid question. Ours is no different.

The title of this post is the stupid question of our era.

Back in the day, if you said you have a computer that had the performance of a Cray, was the size of a shoe box, cost $100 and so on, the stupid question of the era was, “but is it DOS compatible?”

If today, I had a machine that harvested energy from the rotation of the earth, i.e., plentiful and free energy, or a machine that painlessly and quickly removed cancer, someone would ask, “Can I control that from my smartphone?”

And why do we call it a smart phone if it is the object of such stupid questions? But I digress.

So, no matter what wonderful technology you have created, always be ready for today’s stupid technology question.