Google Glass! Today you could purchase a device that looks like glasses except there is a little box mounted in the top corner of the glasses. You now have a remote computer mounted on your face. Cost? $1500. I guess it insulting to call the system “Google glasses”. It is to be correctly called “Google glass”. You can now search the web with your face, take pictures with your face and record every second of your life with your face. I can’t imagine all the things you can do with your face. If there ever was a chance to force me out of your life, just try wearing Google glasses in my prescence.
While we are on high tech, let me take you back in time. It was 1964. I had started working at Allis-Chalmers in Milwaukee as a sales-engineer. That meant I was the engineering expert on material (coal, iron ore, sand and gravel) processing equipment. We lived in Milwaukee but I traveled to the eastern United States to help Sales people sell our products. One of my early trips was to New York City where we had a sales office. Since I was to be in New York, I was encouraged to take one day to visit the New York World’s Fair. I traveled by sub-way from downtown Manhattan to a location opposite the Mets Baseball Stadium. I had no clue what a World’s Fair was. It was like your local “fairs” such as Sheboygan County Fair except it was an extravaganza. Big ferris wheels, high tech rides and lots of companies displaying modern technologies. I remember General Electric and AT&T having lots of futuristic gadgets. You know, telephones with a push-button pad rather than rotary dials. You get the idea. Ford Motor company rolled out it’s shocking, low cost sporty car for the young at heart. The Mustang was born. It cost around $3,000 and young “chicks” all over the country could afford them. The big engines came later. So this year marks the 50th anniversay of the World’s Fair and the introduction of the Ford Mustang. The world will never be the same. Hey, I was working.
It seems my life keeps marking the celebration of the 50 year anniversary of “something”. High School graduation. College graduation. Celebration of kids reaching 50 years of age. Oh Lord, “slow down the train”.
Enjoy the snow.
Love,
Dad