But not to fear, for his Palm, cell phone, PC, e-mail, and Discman are all within reach now. A newborn child screams out to his mother, frightened at the lights and sounds surrounding him. The world is a new exciting place for him, but for now, it is terrifying. Thus on a rainy April morning more than two decades past, a cordless baby is born. It will be some time before he can connect back up to his support system.
Several years pass , and the cordless baby grows into a young cordless boy.
He is happy and energetic, but lacking something. It all changes one Christmas morning in the early 1980s, when a new baby arrives under the Christmas tree. Younger even than the boy himself the IBM PC Jr. is a technological marvel, boasting 256KB of RAM and DOS 2.1 from the newly established Microcomputer Software Corporation, Micro-Soft for short. Things in the cordless boy's house were never the same again. For some people technology is a tool to help make life easier and automate daily functions.