I have always been fascinated by tech. Maybe it's just a side-effect of growing up in the 60s during the space race; maybe it's because my Dad was an engineer; maybe I'm just wired that way. Cool gizmos have attracted me as long as I can remember, from pocket watches up to the amazing tech that keeps a nuclear submarine running (I got to go on tours with my dad as a kid), to things like the auto-driving car and the iPhone. I love tech, and guess I always will. Even after more than a quarter century in the tech business, like a jackbird I'm still fascinated by shiny new things.
What you've read here are some of my observations from the point of view of a true, genuine, hard-core computer nerd. I started playing with computers before they were really what we think of as computers--systems with cassette-deck tape drives and 4K of memory, with a tiny screen that could only display ASCII text. Computers and I grew up together, and now everyone in the world has more computing power running their fuel injector than was available in the entire world when I was born. Now we can access an unbelievable amount of information just by whipping out a device that we call a "phone" but that people a generation ago would have considered basically impossible. It's the age o' the geek, baby, and I'm loving it.
I hope you've enjoyed some of the thoughts, stories, and observations contained in this little tome. I've been scattering such thoughts across the Internet to anyone who would listen since 2007 in my various blogs (http://dougs-random-blather.blogspot.com, http://open.salon.com/blog/douglas_moran, and http://random-blather.com, which also contain plenty of non-tech-related opinion pieces--be warned!). Now I'm publishing them here on Wattpad in addition, and hope that you find some amusement, some interest, and some food for thought in my little notes. The notes of a nerd, a geek, a guy who likes to talk and write. This is my technobabble, and I hope you had fun with it.
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Technobabble
Non-FictionDuring the filming of "Star Trek: The Next Generation", there would frequently come times when the story called for the characters (and in the early days, it was often that bane of Trekkies everywhere, Wesley Crusher, the Platonic Ideal of Dork) to...
