How Much Computing Will You Wear In Your Shoes? [Techdirt]
In the future, poor kids will have to suffer the embarrassment of having to go to
school in a pair of dopey Celeron trainers, while their richer friends
swan about in their overclocked AMD 64-bit liquid helium cooled
screamers. The coolest kids will obviously have dual processor G5
powered shoes designed by Jonathan Ive.
I can almost hear the excuses now:
"Why are you late?"
"My shoes crashed".
We will also hear things like:
"Mum! Don't make me go to school in those! They've only got 128KB of level 2 cache. They're so uncool!"
and
"I was walking past that girl I was telling you about - you know, the
slightly hippy chick who wears those vegan Birkenstocks running Palm
OS? Yes, she's wierd but she's cool. Anyway, I was walking past her and
we had some eye-contact, and I was about to ask her if she fancied a
drink sometime when my All Stars had a kernal panic and dumped core
right in front of her. I was totally embarrassed, but she was really
cool about it. While they were rebooting, we talked OS's for a while,
and, well, the upshot is - we're going out tonight. How cool is that?"
8:16:13 AM 
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