The last 50 years

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Posted on: 16th Sep 2014

I have seen a plethora of amazing changes in the last 20 years of my life .

Coming from a time of telegrams [the father of emails] and radio was the media of my youth

TV came as black and white and TV station shut down at midnight .

I can remember my wife telling me in the garden that

The information super Highway was coming .

Now in those days I made my living shoeing horses and had done so for the past 15 years

I learnt a lot from working with horses and race horses in particular.

Race horses naturally come with jockeys and trainers bookmakers and gambling so I learned that

things can change overnight and they have .

Business is all moving to mobile platforms

Smart phones are every where

As with all media each year the devices get smaller and faster

osborne Ex . portable

This is meant to show the way in which devices have become much more compact and mobile

An Osborne Executive portable computer, from 1982 with a Zilog Z80 4MHz CPU, and a 2007 Apple iPhone with a 412MHz ARM11 CPU. The Executive weighs 100 times as much, has nearly 500 times as much volume, cost approximately 10 times as much (adjusted for inflation), and has about 1/100th the clock frequency of the smartphone.

HTC one and M8