Geeks can't dance

Corbett | September 14, 2009 8:14 PM

During dinner tonight I had a funny geeky globalization moment similar to the time the guys on that comedy, Big Bang Theory, got so excited by an internet ping they sent around the world to turn on their lamp. (The Cooper-Hofstadter Polarization Episode for those serious DVD addicts who just need to know.)

Anyway, I downloaded the new Nokia Internet Radio application which works really well, and decided this would be our new mode of enjoying dinner - tuning in to Radio Tanzania or Rio Rocks, or any of the other amazing streams available, through the phone, over the speakers.

I felt a little like the guy from the '50s who has just bought a new TV console, and the particles were being beamed live through space so I could watch the broadcast. It was that kind of immense cool factor logging onto my in-house WiFi, plugging in my phone to the stereo, selecting music from anywhere in the planet, and streaming through dinner to some very good quality internet radio.

The fact that this is even remotely interesting to me just points out that I really am a digital immigrant, having remembered a time in the old country when the future wasn't so bright, and you had a dedicated box that was the radio, and later you had a laptop that sat precariously on top of a stereo. Now it was just a little app on my phone.

Either way, it was way cool - much cooler than just plugging in the iPod, and it got me cha cha-ing around the room to the bemused look of my wife who reminded me that regardless of the advance in technology, I still couldn't dance.

Category: Ramble

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