I love USB. I have worked with PCs since The Beginning, and I
remember how it used to be. I would buy new peripheral device,
spend lots of time and effort ripping apart my PC to install the
card and then start worrying about software, drivers etc. It
took for ever. By the time I had finished, any excitement I had
about this new cool device had long since evaporated. USB
changed all that. Nowadays, I just plug a standard USB cable
into the back of the computer and into the device and switch on.
Sometimes it will take a moment or two to figure out drivers and
so forth, but in no time I am up and running. USB has been very
successful. USB 2.0 is well established and does a excellent
job. With USB 3.0 beginning to appear, I look forward to great
things, but it does surprise me how many people do not know how
USB works… It is not so surprising really, as USB highlights an
interesting phenomenon in the high-tech world: the simpler
something is to use on the outside, the more horribly complex it
is on the inside! A