Things I Wish a Smartphone Could Do

Cuz it's not. We're human and what we have is always missing something.Does anyone remember what a plug board is (er, was)? The bleeding edge to be sure. But it wasn't good enough. So we got 80 column punch cards and a machine to punch them. You could whip up an assembler program in just a few days. Then some navy gal came up with a ??? program compiler ??? with a pre-assembly syntax that was kinda almost English? Wow! We were swimming in the deep end with that new wiz-bang IBM360!But it just wasn't good enough.A CRT (green monochrome) with keyboard! Direct key-to-disk, then SPM! And instead of submitting your 1100 cards in a box for overnight processing, with the usual result of a debug report of several dozen pages of green-bar paper waiting for you the next morning, you could submit you program direct to queue and get your debug report in just an hour or so. If you were fast enough you could get in 3, 4, maybe even 5 debug runs all in the same day! And at the end of the year you could balance an entire bank in just an hour or so with this magic stuff.But, somehow, there was something missing.It was just not good enough.Look at what we have now. A small pocket box with 10,000,000 times the power of the wiz-bang 360 that lets you send messages to anyone in the world, instantly, while you watch videos of international disasters as they're happening, research volumes from the Library of Congress as you put numbers into just about any physics/financial formula and have some other box somewhere else in the world show you the answer in seconds in a small window right next to one of the other small windows you use to take pictures of baby bunny rabbits and send them around the world in an instant, all while listening to one of the thousands of stored songs from a personal collection of your favorite music. And it can be a telephone, too. Talk to real people while you watch their real faces in real time.But, somehow, there is something missing.It is just not good enough.We are human. What ever it is, what ever it does, there will always be something missing.Doesn't matter how smart it is. It is just not smart enough.Edited by AZPaul3, : No reason given.Edited by AZPaul3, : No reason given.Edited by AZPaul3, : No reason given.