After getting home yesterday, I went on my computer to check out some new videos on YouTube. I watch a couple and come upon the last new one, iOS4 feature breakdown. That’s when it hit me. I had forgotten that iOS4 had come out this morning! So I shoved my iPod plug into the USB and clicked update, and was greeted with a window that said please wait 20 minutes while iOS4 is being downloaded. Great. Sigh……

After 20 long minutes of staring at a growing bar, it finished. Then it started to backup my iPod and install the new OS. Another 15 minutes. Sigh…….

After the long wait, I started to organize all my apps into folders and explore the new OS, or iOS. But this blog isn’t going to be some boring list of new iOS4 features. Go on Apple’s website if you want to read that.

While playing with the new iOS, I realized how amazing this device I was holding in my hand really was. It can sense the heat of my finger, and respond in a fraction of a second. It can do calculations 1000000000x faster than I can, and it is a ton smaller than me. I have no idea how this thing works at all, and that made me realize how complicated these things must be.

These pieces of technology - computers, touch screen devices, phones - are amazing. What I really don’t understand is how some people figured this stuff out. They must have geniuses. How did they figure out a way to make a chunk of silicon calculate algorithms, or a screen of tiny lights display an image, or a tiny piece of whatever a receiver is, receive data wirelessly! I just have absolutely no idea.

This is what makes some of us geeks. Just the extraordinary things technology can do for us and the complexity of that technology. So this is my question for you. With all this amazing stuff coming out, what do u think will be the next product? What do you think people at different companies will make next? Post you thoughts below.

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