Kindle 2: Life Altering TechnologyKindle 2: Life Altering Technology

Is what you have and propose life-altering?

Last week we had a meeting with a school interested in fixing their campus infrastructure and the teachers were talking about not using so many PCs and even dumping the idea of using laptops for the school and instead choosing to maintain the school computer lab and waiting for technology to catch up.The cost of textbooks and the unreliable, often outdated information found in them is enough to make any parent, administrator or teacher mad. What infuriates everyone is the resale value of the textbooks for college kids fetches just pennies-on-the-dollar. The new hope is that Amazon will develop the Kindle 2 beyond and include color and other features such as sound enhancements as an alternative means of delivering textbooks for students.

After getting back to the office I wanted to find out why the Kindle 2 was better and learn more about it. I came across a customer review of the Kindle 2.

Ben: "If I knew the e-mail address for Jeff Bezos I would happily send him this review that I will also be posting in the forums so he would personally know that he has truly changed one man's life for the better, that this device for some of us will not just be incredibly convenient, but that it will be life altering."

Life altering is how Ben, a 29 year-old quadriplegic describes the technology. A past criticism of technology is the failure to deliver benefits or the cost of ownership is too high or it's simply too complicated. Here's an exception to that criticism and I think that from Ben's perspective, Jeff Bezos is the winner for delivering something that is life altering. Ben doesn't stop at leaving a post on the Amazon.com website but continues, "I will also be posting in the forums." All the talk, and a lot of it is talk, surrounding UC maybe missing singularity of purpose. Life altering. Is what you have and propose life-altering?Is what you have and propose life-altering?