{"id":1891,"date":"2012-11-20T18:34:42","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T18:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/?p=371"},"modified":"2012-11-20T18:34:42","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T18:34:42","slug":"a-time-to-give-thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/a-time-to-give-thanks\/","title":{"rendered":"A Time to Give Thanks"},"content":{"rendered":"

As you all know, Thanksgiving is quickly approaching.\u00a0 A time when many of us fly or drive hundreds, even thousands of miles to see family and friends.\u00a0 We pretend to let go of our lives as we know them, but as the demand of most jobs has increased over the years, many of us still work.\u00a0 In fact, many men and women are going to be working in the office\/store on Thanksgiving, as many still try to take advantage of greedy \u201cBlack Friday\u201d shoppers.\u00a0 Luckily for some of us, the work we have to do can be done remotely thanks to some great technology that has been developed over the years.\u00a0 I\u2019m going to tell you about the things I am thankful for, because without it, I couldn\u2019t be a smarter worker, or a happy one at that.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m really thankful for mobile technology.\u00a0 Smartphones, laptops, tablets, you name it.\u00a0 My life wouldn\u2019t be the same without them.\u00a0 As someone who is stuck in front of the computer damn near every minute of the day, it is amazing ability to be mobile.\u00a0 If you can\u2019t move from the computer, at least be able to move the computer itself.\u00a0 What an amazing revelation it must have been for Adam Osborne when he invented the first laptop in 1981.\u00a0 It was called the \u201cOsborne 1\u201d and featured a small screen, and when I say small, I mean small.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Osborne 1<\/p><\/div>\n

Sure it may be hard to call that thing \u201cmobile,\u201d but he had the right idea.\u00a0 While others were still calling computers a \u201cfad\u201d Osborne was thinking of a way to make them easier to carry around and increase usability.<\/p>\n

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This is why I am also thankful for smartphones.\u00a0 This first smartphone wasn\u2019t even called such.\u00a0 It was IBM\u2019s \u201cSimon Personal Communicator,\u201d a mobile phone with a touch screen and PDA features.\u00a0 \u201cSimon\u201d came out in 1994, but the term \u201cSmartphone\u201d wasn\u2019t coined until 1997, so many people don\u2019t realize that it was the first of its kind.\u00a0 It only had 1MB of memory and 1MB of storage, and cost a whopping $900\u00a0with<\/strong>\u00a0a 2 year service contract.<\/p>\n

I think we all take advantage of the power we hold in our hands on a daily basis.\u00a0 The typical phone can make calls, send a message by text or email, take a picture, record video, be used as a stopwatch, a flashlight, a calculator, a web browser, can play games, watch movies, it\u2019s your calendar and GPS, everything you can possibly need.\u00a0 By my count, that is about 11 different devices all smashed into one pocket sized creation that we carry with us every day.\u00a0 Can you imagine having to carry all those things around with you everywhere you went?\u00a0 Yet many of us still would rather complain about our phones than be amazed by them, and I will admit, I am no exception to that.\u00a0 So I\u2019m taking a chance to say, I am thankful for my smartphone, my laptop, and my tablet.<\/p>\n

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