Dadi Perlmutter Keynote

IDF 08-27-06 Afternoon session

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So I took my notebook. I had a GSM modem. I hooked it in. And

I succeeded to get my daughter on. The video was a bit more

shaky, but we at least could identify that this was really our

daughter. And we drove for two hours. Well, it was a Centrino

notebook, so I was not worried about the battery life. It

succeeded to go through this two-hour drive. We got into our

mother-in-law -- this of course has to do with the mother-in-law -

- and she was there, and we said, "Do you want to talk to your

granddaughter?" "Of course, where is she?" And we gave her

the notebook. She looked at the notebook, saw the picture -- by

the way, this is, I think, the first time she really saw notebook

and definitely saw the small video of the messenger. She of

course kissed the picture and was very happy to see her

granddaughter.

So this is what mobility is all about. This is creating this personal

touch; this is new things that we could do beyond just email. On

the way back home, I was thinking a lot, and my wife said,

"What's on your mind? Are you thinking about this wonderful

dinner, wonderful thing we had with the family?" I said, "No, I'm

thinking about how can we make this technology way better?"

So I got this kind of note from my wife about you techies. But

here I am to talk about this new thing, trying to get this

experience and other experiences way, way better.

But let me take you to history. This year we are commemorating

the 25 years of the PC. And we tend to forget, but the first PC