Omar L. Gallaga writes about technology culture for the Austin American-Statesman. He's worked for more than nine years at the Austin American-Statesman and edited Technopolis, the newspaper's personal tech section, and ¡ahora sí!, Austin's Spanish-language newspaper. He's been a writer and performer with Austin's award-winning Latino Comedy Project and is a contributing writer for Television Without Pity, MSNBC.com's books section and The Almost Late Show with Bobby Bones. He writes a comic strip, "Space Monkeys!" with his brother, Pablo, and lives in New Braunfels with his wife and three technologically savvy cats.
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Let’s take a little poll here, just for curiosity’s sake.
What’s one piece of technology that you absolutely couldn’t do without?
Now don’t be cute and say “toothbrush” or “fire.” Let’s keep it to things invented sometime in the last 50 years.
Feel free to be cute in any other way.
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By Tim Bratcher
July 11, 2005 11:20 AM | Link to this
I'd say its my wireless network and broadband Internet connection. It enables all the other cool stuff--from my TiVo to my myriad laptops and home media servers-- to communicate and work together. Yes, my microwave is cool in the way it scans barcodes on the packages and downloads cooking instructions, but it couldn't do that without my home network and the Internet.
By Rob Rummel-Hudson
July 6, 2005 7:36 PM | Link to this
Not a very interesting answer, but I'd have to say my iBook. I use it constantly, everywhere. I don't think my wife would let me roll the desktop machine into the hopper, either. Not that I surf on the can, you know. But, if I wanted to, you know...