Tuesday, January 4, 2000

Jason’s “best of” nominations

Jason Perlow, Senior Technical Editor of Windows CE Power and Contributing Editor for PalmPower (and a fellow DVD fanatic) clocks in with his “best of” nominations:

  • Most important technology… Espresso Machine (the entire computer industry runs on it)
  • Most interesting product… ReplayTV
  • Best movie ever… 2001: A Space Odyssey / Blade Runner (tie)
  • Most interesting use of a new material… Velcro Sneakers
  • Most influential figure… Alan Turing, father of Computer Science
  • Best bad-guy… Darth Vader
  • Nastiest leader… Adolf Hitler/Joseph Stalin (tie)
  • Person of the Century / of the Millennium… J. Presper Eckert, John W. Mauchly and John Vincent Atanasoff (three-way tie), inventors of the world’s first digital computer
  • Most eagerly awaited event… Unveiling of the Color Palm Device
  • Most interesting new edible substance… Pop Rox
  • Most exciting event… Woodstock ’68
  • Biggest news/most newsworthy… Bombing of Pearl Harbor
  • Cheesiest concept… Microwave Pizza
  • Silliest technology… Microsoft Bob [our second nomination]
  • Best accomplishment of humanity… The Internet
  • Worst accomplishment of humanity… Fossil Fuels

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