Bill Chriss will discuss the current trends in the personal computing experience and how 
those trends have affected how we live and work.
 
You may remember Bill's presentations to the club in the spring of 2002, the winter of 1998 
and the fall of 1996 where he described the personal computing and Internet experience at 
those times and how they changed how we communicated and “computed”. This January 2011 
presentation looks at the current state of this personal computing experience and the trends
that are driving this experience. He’ll also offer some provocative discussion about the 
issues and opportunities provided by those trends.

Bill is a BCUG member who has a long history of personal computing, from the days of the 
Atari 400, and the Internet, running the UNIX version of the Mosaic browser on a SUN 
workstation before the PC version was available. While he professionally develops computers 
that masquerade as business telephones, his home hobby shop is filled with several computers
with various operating systems and applications and a smart phone that gives him a computing
and communications experience while on the move.