Bluetooth

As an early birthday gift my father bought me a flashy new laptop. It comes with, as is probably standard now, bluetooth. Something which I have had no contact with before. I googled it for ideas on how I might actually benefit from this technology but found nothing I wasn’t aware of; nothing that didn’t require me having at least one more piece of bluetoothised technology.

I did, however, discover that the technology is named after the son of Gorm and king of Denmark from 950 or 958 to 985 or 986, Harald Bluetooth Gormson. His major achievements seem to have been bringing Christianity to Denmark and building the Jelling Stones. The stones honoured his parents in a traditional pagan fashion but was actually one of the first big official gestures to Christianity and an attempt to ease it into the Danish culture.

I didn’t find anything suggesting why Bluetooth technology would be associated with this king of Denmark and nothing about Harald Bluetooth that stood-out as analogous, similar or representative of the technology. Maybe Bluetooth is coming in the form of traditional network technologies, especially Wi-Fi, but is actually heralding a new era of… something. Social control maybe. Who cares? technology is cool. Check out my computer, LOSERRRS!