Comments on: How do you read? http://www.andybarlowblog.com/?p=811 Adventures in Christlike-ness, family, ministry, and life. Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:34:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Andy http://www.andybarlowblog.com/?p=811&cpage=1#comment-508 Andy Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:08:00 +0000 http://www.andybarlowblog.com/?p=811#comment-508 No Mom, I didn't just fire you. But just for your box of information for future purposes, you can very easily take a machine needing an internet connection everywhere you want to go, with the exception of some sparsely inhabited places. My new iPhone is a perfect example of this. I have AT&T's high speed 3G network at my fingertips wherever I go & my email (and other info) is sent to the phone where I read it in my hand. And your point about the printed page being around "as long as it is taken care of" is no different than me (or anyone else) maintaining their computer equipment. The whole premise for this blog post is built around the idea that many people already do own and maintain digital equipment, so there's no cost for purchasing new equipment. Thanks for reading. :-) No Mom, I didn’t just fire you. But just for your box of information for future purposes, you can very easily take a machine needing an internet connection everywhere you want to go, with the exception of some sparsely inhabited places.

My new iPhone is a perfect example of this. I have AT&T’s high speed 3G network at my fingertips wherever I go & my email (and other info) is sent to the phone where I read it in my hand.

And your point about the printed page being around “as long as it is taken care of” is no different than me (or anyone else) maintaining their computer equipment. The whole premise for this blog post is built around the idea that many people already do own and maintain digital equipment, so there’s no cost for purchasing new equipment.

Thanks for reading. :-)

]]> By: AVA http://www.andybarlowblog.com/?p=811&cpage=1#comment-507 AVA Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:57:12 +0000 http://www.andybarlowblog.com/?p=811#comment-507 Hey son, did you just fire me? You cannot take a machine needing an internet connection everywhere you want to go, but you can carry a newspaper. Doctors offices would not allow you access to their high speed internet. You don't need it in a park either, if reading a newspaper or magazine. You don't need to worry about maintaining a newspaper, but you do a computer. Where will the history be when a computer crash wipes out all that info. On the printed page, it is there as long as it is taken care of. Surfing through computer archives for any publication is tedious and time consuming. Give me the printed page anyday, for a simpler, less challenged and technically advantageous enjoyable time. Hey son, did you just fire me? You cannot take a machine needing an internet connection everywhere you want to go, but you can carry a newspaper. Doctors offices would not allow you access to their high speed internet. You don’t need it in a park either, if reading a newspaper or magazine. You don’t need to worry about maintaining a newspaper, but you do a computer. Where will the history be when a computer crash wipes out all that info. On the printed page, it is there as long as it is taken care of. Surfing through computer archives for any publication is tedious and time consuming. Give me the printed page anyday, for a simpler, less challenged and technically advantageous enjoyable time.

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