Why would you need that in a KITCHEN?
I remember sitting in Communications 101: Intro to Mass Media at Milligan, under the guidance of Terry Mattingly oh-so-many years ago when the conversation turned to this growing phenomenon called the Internet. This was in the Dark Ages, when the WWW was still reserved primarily for techno-geeks and role-playing buffs. It wasn’t accessible to everyone and it definitely wasn’t as fast as it is today. This was before Milligan (who claimed to be a front-runner in this area) put down fiber-optic cable, allowing access to higher-speed Internet to the entire campus. And yes, this was much earlier than wi-fi. My roommate bought a computer a year or two after this conversation and it had a few gigs of memory. One of our techno-geek friends asked, “Why on earth would you ever need that much memory? That’s so huge!”
Yeah, now we can carry more memory than that on our keychains. But I digress…
TMatt was discussing unending possibilities that would open up once the WWW became more accessible to the general public. I remember him saying something about the entire house would be connected to the Web. Kitchens would even be online. You’d be able to store your recipes and make grocery lists on your computer. And they might even do your grocery shopping for you.
I quietly chuckled about the notion. Why on earth would a kitchen need to have a computer? And even if it did have a computer, why would it need to have Internet access?
My father-in-law recently gave us a wireless router, so we now have Internet access throughout the house (and in the church office, I might add). So I use my laptop to listen to the radio while working in the kitchen. And yes, I look up recipes on the laptop. Made some pretty tasty pork chops a couple of days ago. I followed the recipe on my laptop’s screen. And while I was working on the recipe, a reminder popped up from my to-do list.
Huh.
Maybe he wasn’t so far-fetched after all. I guess the guy does know what he’s talking about (from time-to-time :))
Now, if only we could eliminate the need to go to the grocery. Oh wait.
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Matt, this is so funny. I too was in that same class with Dr. Mattingly when he was talking about this, and I too couldn’t believe it being the case!
Now, we are like you – always with the laptop in the kitchen looking up recipes, etc. It’s such a staple in our lives and we take it for granted that we can look up ANYTHING we want to make for dinner, and can find an instant recipe.
The other thing that is funny is that an older gentleman I know recently (like a month ago) was telling a group of people in regards to advertising “….This Internet thing is going to be huge…”
Uh – I think it’s there…..
“This Internet thing is going to be huge.” That’s hilarious!
I thought about you when I wrote this post. I was hoping you’d read it. 🙂 I was curious if you remembered the same conversation.
You gotta give tmatt credit. He was much more farsighted than we were.