The iphone truly is extraordinary though, and in so many ways just has me shaking my head in disbelief.   In the upgrade to the 3G network, the phone has become a personal mini-computer that is connected to the internet almost constantly.

As someone who came of age during the rise of the personal computer (I have a picture of me playing on my first computer at the age of 3), it has been an unreal ride.  In the early days when we were kids we had what we thought was a pretty sweet DOS machine.  My older brother James was a whiz at it.  I figured out enough commands to play tetris, command and conquer, and power up Q & A to write my elementary school papers.    Every week Zach and I would rollerblade down to the local college to pick up a copy of Computer World so we could get the updated list of phone numbers for the BBS’s so we could dial-up and play Risk ‘online’.   Then came windows, and AOL and Prodigy.  I got really good at scamming as many free discs as possible and was right constantly canceling accounts and opening new ones as to take advantage of all the free minutes.

My family’s first laptop was this big white brick made by a company that doesn’t exist anymore.   Windows sort of worked on it, but man did it take ages to load.  I think I did a demo for science class on it once though, I thought I was pretty cool.

And now I’m getting an iphone.  I suppose it’s a cell phone (which is a different discussion then above for sure, as my family had an early car phone that I think was as big as my head.)    But truly it’s a computer that is infinitely more amazing then that old white clunker of a laptop.   I’m a bit terrified of becoming even more connected then I am now, but more then anything I am thrilled for my new toy.  And of course, I am super excited for it to become obsolete and surpassed with something even more rad in the hopefully very near future.