Week 2 - My Digital Life

Technology Inventory List:

3 Laptops

1 Tower Unit

2 External Hard drives

2 Wacom Tables

3 Monitors

2 Speaker Monitors

iPhone

PS3

Projector

Canon 7D

Canon Powershot

I can not see my life without everything listed on my technology inventory. When I am at home I use my tower CPU, when I am out I always have a laptop with me and my iPhone. I bring my laptop to work and work off my own laptop and external hard drive and sometimes I bring one of my Wacoms if I am doing intensive graphic illustrations. I have been accustomed to using a laptop with an external monitor and Wacom for game play and I can't watch a movie without my projector. My life is literally digital.

I think my mom still uses a rolladex and phone book to keep all of her contacts in though she has a cellphone. My father only just switched over to a blackberry from a "regular" cellphone that now holds all of his contacts and appointments. Though they still have papers all over their home office and posted on their fridge with numbers and dates of places they need to be. I am now showing them how to log onto Facebook and use the Google Calendar to keep appointments.

Being the age I am and growing up in the 90's, I was introduced to the NES at the age of 6 in 1990 and found that system to be the best piece of electronics ever invented. It was a trip to learn that there was a system even older then the NES. What is even more amazing is that I still own every gaming system I have (or my parents have) ever bought. Sometimes I find it hard to believe that consoles are still around because the internet and computers have really bumped up the gaming status quo. I remember my parents trying to play my NES and feeling this sense of dispare. It was hard for them. I know they weren't use to this new interactive game play, different from a regular board game.

In 1996 when I started Junior High, I had a pager and two years later in high school I had a giant Nokia Cellphone. My boyfriend and I (who is only 6 months younger then I am at the lovely age of 25), like to reminisce about those days of bulky electronic devices in our pockets and carrying binders full of information when now we have tiny phones and laptops to hold everything.

I grew up in the analog to digital transition. It's a weird feeling. Within a 15 year span I've owned 7 computers all ranging from CRTs and towers to 13 inch laptops and 8 gaming consoles. With the computer and consoles being some of the biggest developments of the times, I can look back on my own history to see where the analog ended and the digital began.