Its been 15 years!

Today I am celebrating my 15^th wedding anniversary to my best friend, the amazing @melissacaddell.

 Wow, 15 years has flown by. Fifteen years ago we were in college. I had 9600 baud modem to upload programs for my computer class (and it took forever), a 486DX computer (an upgrade from the Tandy 1000), and a Motorola cell phone with a battery the size of a small shoe. I recorded most of my music off of CD’s to a cassette tape and our social media was watching Star Trek TNG and eating frozen pizza with our friends in our small mobile home with the $200/month rent we could afford in the middle of a sand pit. Some of you reading this have no idea what some of that is, so let me recap with the equivalent in today’s life:

 Now we have cable modem, 3 laptops (one the kids share), an iPhone (that I have to pry out of the chubby hands of my game-playing toddler) and a Centro (that is half the size of the batter of our first cell phone).  My kids have no idea what a cassette tape is, we talk to all of our college friends via Facebook, and I follow Wil Wheaton, Levar Burton & Brent Spinner (Star Trek TNG) on Twitter.  We still like frozen pizza (though a better brand), watch tv when we want to off of our DVR and live in a comfy house in the ‘burbs. 

 There have been too many technology changes to mention in the last fifteen years.  Some technology has actually been useful and improved our quality of life (raise your hand if you love your iPod).  But some technology has made our lives much more complicated and/or cluttered (like why won’t The Wyf’s computer remember it has the print driver installed? Without having to be reinstalled for every print job?)

 The struggle with how technology can actually be a hindrance to humans has led me to my focus for The SDG Group in 2010.   The problem with most technology is that humans have to adapt to it instead of technology adapting to you.  Stay tuned for some upcoming websites and software products that will address the human-technology interface problem.

I pray you all have a happy new year and live long prosper this year!

The Geek

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