changes in technology

As I have said in the previous blog, I have been working away from home and staying in hotels. Just before Christmas 2011 I sat down at a table in the bar, ready to eat and drink of course and put down on the table, my phone, kindle and iPad. it then hit me as to the amount of technology I had just put on the table. My phone is a HTC desire, which includes, two cameras , gps, width, mobile Internet, an eight gig memory card and of course a phone. The kindle is the basic model, wifi not 3G, with ten novels to read. I have got an iPad2 which needs no introduction. That got me thinking of all the technology I posses and the changes I have seen in my lifetime. I think the changes I have seen since 1954 are pretty incredible, but do they compare with those witnessed by my great grandma ginny? As a lad I sometimes used to go with my dad to quorn to visit his mother, Millicent, who lived with her brother Ernie, their mother Ginny and Aunt nell in a house on the corner of barrow road and Loughborough road. If we got there between 11 And 1130 then my dads great uncle bill would be there. As a lad I tended to ignore these old folk but there was conversation that I can remember. I think my dad asked bill what changes he had seen in quorn, and he reeled off something like he could remember the first bike, car, plane, zeppelin in the first world war, helped build the great central railway, radio, television , telephone , jet engine, space rockets and I think he lived long enough to see Apollo 11 land on the moon. I need to check this out but I think he served in the boer war and the first world war where he was invalided out. Anyhow the point is the amount of change that Bill and Ginny had lived through, from horse drawn transport to space rockets, from no radio through crystal sets to valves to transistors to integrated circuits. So how about me? Well I thought I would post on different topics such as transport, radio, tv, computers etc. The next post will cover transport.