The New Technology
This guest post is written by my pharmacist friend Don Weiss. His murder mystery, Picture Perfect, is about to be released. Check it out in e-book or paperback form on Amazon or Barnes and Noble!
Hello,fellow sexagenarians. I’m typing this blog post on my brand spanking new computer. It is light, fast, and pretty darned near amazing compared to my old machine. Which brings me to our topic—technology. First, let’s harken back to those thrilling days of yesteryear.
For my twelfth birthday, I received a compact transistor radio, complete with leather case and earphone. Raise your hand if you know what a transistor is? Give up? It’s a tiny device invented by two guys at Bell Labs that started the whole tech revolution. I had that little radio for years. I wasn’t married to it like kids are today, and I sure didn’t treat it like a disposable commodity. And for years, nothing better came along. Then sometime in the mid-seventies, things began to change. Two guys working out of their garage came up with something called the Apple II personal computer, and another revolution began.
It’s always amazed me how quick we are to embrace technology and how little about it we understand. Televisions used to come in
My daughter, Amanda, who is now 25 years old, sat with dear old dad to help set up my new machine. Mans (as I call her) was born in 1990. She grew up with computers, cell phones, iPods, iPod minis,
PlayStations I, II, and III, Wiis, laptops, tablets, e-readers, and all of the other 21st century marvels. She instantaneously adapts to every new gizmo that comes out of Silicone Valley. When she was a student at Florida Atlantic University, some of her courses were on-line. Why did it cost so much if my daughter didn’t have to leave her room to attend class? When I attended university, I had to be there rain, shine, sleet, snow, or hail. Slide Rules ruled the day and the few computers we used had punch-cards. Anyone see a job for a key-punch operator lately? I do take comfort in one thing. If all of our technology suddenly disappears, as a writer I can still sharpen up a few number two pencils and grab a piece of paper.
Hello,fellow sexagenarians. I’m typing this blog post on my brand spanking new computer. It is light, fast, and pretty darned near amazing compared to my old machine. Which brings me to our topic—technology. First, let’s harken back to those thrilling days of yesteryear.
For my twelfth birthday, I received a compact transistor radio, complete with leather case and earphone. Raise your hand if you know what a transistor is? Give up? It’s a tiny device invented by two guys at Bell Labs that started the whole tech revolution. I had that little radio for years. I wasn’t married to it like kids are today, and I sure didn’t treat it like a disposable commodity. And for years, nothing better came along. Then sometime in the mid-seventies, things began to change. Two guys working out of their garage came up with something called the Apple II personal computer, and another revolution began.
It’s always amazed me how quick we are to embrace technology and how little about it we understand. Televisions used to come in
My daughter, Amanda, who is now 25 years old, sat with dear old dad to help set up my new machine. Mans (as I call her) was born in 1990. She grew up with computers, cell phones, iPods, iPod minis,
PlayStations I, II, and III, Wiis, laptops, tablets, e-readers, and all of the other 21st century marvels. She instantaneously adapts to every new gizmo that comes out of Silicone Valley. When she was a student at Florida Atlantic University, some of her courses were on-line. Why did it cost so much if my daughter didn’t have to leave her room to attend class? When I attended university, I had to be there rain, shine, sleet, snow, or hail. Slide Rules ruled the day and the few computers we used had punch-cards. Anyone see a job for a key-punch operator lately? I do take comfort in one thing. If all of our technology suddenly disappears, as a writer I can still sharpen up a few number two pencils and grab a piece of paper.
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