convergence i first head this word when i was still in school i think i was on a steady diet of star trek for breakfast fireball xl5 for lunch and giant robot for dinner at the time the first home computer had just about shown up and the thing to do to was take summer classes in computer programming never mind even if it was the ohsomadeforthehousewife basic thats about when we were introduced to a future where machines would do everything actually they already had started doing everything but now they would do everything from everywhere access to the home computer was limited more so because my older brothers have no heart i was told pacman could be dangerous it is dangerously addictive that is one thing that was all mine was a small casio keyboard which incidentally was a gift from one of the older brothers my first tune the melody from close encounters of the third kind television became the vcr the computer turned into a laptop telephones into cell phones the camera and the video games became portable anyone remember the hotshot camera and the twin screen donkeykong the technological advances have made it possible to carry more of what you might need with you and even more of what you dont twenty years later feels a bit like were using alien technology so what if the aliens havent shown up yet touch screen have so has cloud computing thanks to faster internet speed but the journey for me has been about a one single device that can carry your life with you yes im monogamous after one and a half decade of sifting through windows editions and symbian mobile applications i finally settled down to apple mainly because of the seamless way their products work with each other and the apple of my eye among all the electronic products i own is my soupedup iphone 3gs it is the one device i go nowhere without and its the one device that delivers all that i need on the road fanboy no cautious admirer yes