Ol' Bill once said that he wanted computers to be "appliances"...so "in the background" that people "just used them" and did not think of them "as computers".
I just realized this morning that I went to the kitchen, and while making breakfast, I had taken a laptop to the table last night, I walked over and navigated to a local radio station and was listening to the weather forecast in the stream.
This is what "we" "all" USED TO DO....with our radios in the morning before going to school or work.
I "treated" the computer as a radio and did not even think about it until later.
Now, the signal is not "going through the air", but the effect is the same.
Could one do that with a Windblows computer? Yes, but it would COMPLAIN MIGHTLY if the stream was in something like an mpeg format or in a .pls format.
As Marshal McLuahn once opined: The Medium is the Massage (massage is spelled correctly).
woodsmoke
I just realized this morning that I went to the kitchen, and while making breakfast, I had taken a laptop to the table last night, I walked over and navigated to a local radio station and was listening to the weather forecast in the stream.
This is what "we" "all" USED TO DO....with our radios in the morning before going to school or work.
I "treated" the computer as a radio and did not even think about it until later.
Now, the signal is not "going through the air", but the effect is the same.
Could one do that with a Windblows computer? Yes, but it would COMPLAIN MIGHTLY if the stream was in something like an mpeg format or in a .pls format.
As Marshal McLuahn once opined: The Medium is the Massage (massage is spelled correctly).
woodsmoke
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