Cutting Edges Get Blunt 30 Years Later

by Pier Marton | Feb 4, 2014 | Future Tech, History, Objects, Tech, Time

– Obsolescence and Coolness in One Package –

Macintosh 128K

With 128 KB RAM, 64 KB ROM, a single-sided 3.5 inch 400 KB floppy drive, a 1-bit 512×342 pixel 9 in (23 cm) CRT b&w monitor, a mouse, “System 1.0″and Finder application and a couple of applications like MacWrite and MacPaint, establishing the desktop publishing standard of 72 PPI, the Macintosh was destined to change the face of computing forever…

The magic of Steve Jobs in 1984

From this 2014 Apple video:

with a behind-the-scene view:

… to a 1984 Apple video with Steve Jobs’ First Demonstration of the Mac for the Public (in Flash format):

The original 1984 Macintosh ad:

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BREAK THE SURFACE
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To ride the unbalance* between:
1. excellence and a kind, singular and porous identity that contains some of the scruples, humor, humility, musicality & the beauty of a harsh and confusing, yet benign and rich reality – away from distractions.
2. the stupidity and blindness of complacency, violence, injustice, pretense, egos, short-term… wishful… and group “thinking,” and empty talk – in all of their surprising embodiments. And the false sense of fullness all of this provides.
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An appeal for a world NOT so caught up in anthropo/ego/euro/ethno/oculo/esthetico -CENTRISM.
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1. Beware of those who claim to be strong – they are often dangerous.
2. Unmask the hoax of “centrality” – ask an “EX-centric” for assistance?
3. Perceive the arrogance of normalcy: everybody, in one way or another, is handicapped… which brings us back to 1.
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*Not unrelated to “There is beauty and there are the humiliated. Whatever difficulties the enterprise may present, I should like never to be unfaithful either to the second or the first.” — Albert Camus