i delayed this reminder post from last friday,
as i didn't want to spoil your memorial day...
thus i sincerely hope none of that oil polluting
the gulf of mexico spilled on the meat you had
grilling on your weekend outdoor barbeque...
-bowerbird
4.5 years ago, i made a little bet with david rothman
-- who i pleasantly refer to as "the idiot", inspired by a
label given by another observer on the e-book scene --
about my 5-year perspective on e-book hardware...
you can find the original thread here:
>
http://www.teleread.com/2005/11/29/you-can-buy-the-mit-100-laptop-for-200/
as usual, for him, the idiot was blathering on about
how there'd be $50 e-book hardware "real soon now",
a line he'd been huckstering for years prior to that...
i always reminded him that an e-book reader-machine
would have to have a chip and a screen, and that meant
that it would essentially be a computer, and that those
were the most expensive parts of any computer, so that
it was totally unrealistic to expect that kind of pricing...
i said:
> and if there’s a $50 computer — i mean a real computer –
> available on _any_ thanksgiving in the next 5 years, i will
> _buy_it_ for you. because the cost of _lunch_ will hit $50
> before there is a $50 computer. and i can buy you lunch…
4.5 years later, there's still no $50 computer on the market.
so it looks like the idiot's crystal ball was severely cracked...
but walmart _will_ be selling the iphone (a real computer)
for just 99 bucks. so my crystal ball? pretty darn accurate.
-bowerbird
