Hi everyone, glad to be here. 😃
Just signed in and took a small look around and I must say that one can really feel the thrill of excitement around here as we all get to witness a blank book being opened and watch from close while the first adventures are being written.
It kind of feels like 2014 all over again, while we see @Carl and @David doing what they do best and get people involved and filled with anticipation about what’s to come.
So let’s start from the beginning, I’m an engineer from Portugal born in the beginning of that beautiful era that was the 80’s. It was then that the tech boom really started, and showed how tech could change the life of everyone. From the magic Apple Macintosh to the amazing NES/Gameboy, or from Walkman, that changed forever how we would listen to our music, to the VHS player, that brought the movies we wanted to see to our homes.
What got me here to the nothing community first of all was obviously the familiar faces that I’ve come to know since long, but then I heard the ideals behind Nothing tech and how it wants to start from a clean state and try to break some those old assumptions that tech has to be evolutive and can’t be disruptive.
History has proven that those that are brave enough to risk a change can really break the mold and take tech to places most people didn’t even knew they would want. From Henry Ford that made people want more than just a better horse, to Steve Jobs that showed everyone that you wouldn’t need buttons to make a great smartphone. Changes like those take huge risks, and not everyone ends up succeeding, but those who do succeed end up doing it in a glorious way.
So what better place to experience nothing attempting to succeed than from inside it’s brand new community. 🙂
As for the first piece of tech that probably I remember that got me excited about tech and not just good old toys when I was a kid, was a futuristic early 90’s wrist watch that had fm radio, calculator and buttons to show the hours of a dozen different countries, that thing to my eyes back then really looked it came from a distant future and I then I wouldn’t shut up until my father got me one. 😃
A good fitting movie quote to this is the classic Forrest Gump “Life is Like a Box of Chocolates. You Never Know What You’re Gonna Get”.
Finally and to end this TLDR first post 😅, my spirit gadget would probably be the magic first airpods, it showed that if things were done properly, wires for listening music could be a thing of the past. That was a liberating step to completely change how one can enjoy it’s media content on the go and with no strings attached and just with a small box you could carry everywhere and could fit the small pocket of your jeans. 😛
Curious to see what ear 1 will bring to the table, and looking forward to share my input about it.
