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+title:  Blog Questions Challenge: Technology Edition
+date:   Sun, 20 Apr 2025 10:39:17 +0200
+author: -fab- <fab@redterminal.org>
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<== Blog Questions Challenge: Technology Edition ==>

While not explicitly tagged, I take up the ball from moddedbear[1],
who tagged everybody who wants to participate.

I've never partake in a blog challenge so lets see how it works
out.


<== When did you first get interested in technology? ==>

I can't remember a time when I was not interested in technology. In
fact my mother told me the story that I sawed up our rotary dial
telephone to see what's in this magic thing when I was a very young
boy (no joke!).

But I was always interested in these things like digital watches
and digital calculators and such. Nothing special, it just had to
be an electronic gadget.


<== Whats your favorite piece of technology of all time? ==>

This is clearly my first Commodore 64 with a floppy drive. I
learned to program it in assembler and did some pretty good demos
for the demo scene, although I couldn't compete with the demo
scene wizards who did (and still do I recently got to know) really
amazing things with the Commodore.

But the Commodore 64 was my first real contact with electronic
devices which I could play around with and I learned a lot of
things. We swapped floppy disks by mail for pirating games and
exchange the latest demos and it was a really fun time.


<== What's your favorite piece of technology right now? ==>

At the moment I'm mostly working with my Tuxedo InfinityBook Pro
15 - Gen 9 AMD. It's nothing special like some of the appliances
or gadgets other people write as their favorite, but I really like
working with it. It's pretty modern, I bought it in November'24 and
I'm using it nearly daily since.

For going outdoors I have my Lenovo ThinkPad T460s which I also
like a lot. The model is from 2016 and I bought it in 2021 I
believe. I don't want to take my Tuxedo for outdoor adventures,
although it has much better specs.


<== Name one cool piece of technology we'll have in 25 years ==>

That's really a tough one because I'm not good at predicting the
future.

I hope that we'll make great progress in medicine and hopefully can
cure cancer and other very bad diseases in the future. Maybe also
fusion reactors, which will reduce CO2 emissions and help reducing
climate change.

But if I should come up with one special gadget we'll have it'll
maybe be flying cars or something like that.


<== Like moddedbear I challenge all of you too ==>

It would be fun to read your answers to these questions, so if you
like to participate in this challenge please do!


All in all - Have fun!
-fab-

[1]: gemini://moddedbear.xyz/logs/2025-04-19-blog-questions-challenge-technology-edition.gmi