High tech

[ffutures]

Just glanced into one of the labs to see one of the science teachers using an interactive whiteboard (cost £800), AV projector (about £1100), installation (£500-ish), sound system (£150-ish) and computer (£400-ish) to simulate... a blackboard. Black background, white scrawled text, etc.

OK, yes, I know you can use it for other things, but it seemed very silly somehow.

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[the-magician.livejournal.com]

I think it was the boss of the mobile phone company Orange that demonstrated the new WAP functionality of their latest mobile phone by saying you could use it to look up the local italian restaurant and see if there was a table free for this evening at 8pm and then reserve a table ... and after several minutes of browsing and waiting for pages to load and keying in stuff, someone asked if it wouldn't just be easier using the phone to phone the restaurant and talk to someone?