It's happening and there is nothing I
can do to stop it.
Time is leaving me in the dust.
Well, more accurately modern technology
is leaving me in the dust and I find myself turning into one of those
“grumpy old people” who complain about modern times and start
many a sentence with, “When I was younger...” or something
similar.
There are just simply too many
computers and gadgets out there for me to keep up with.
While I am hardly a computer genius, I
can use the infernal contraptions with some level of proficiency.
Hey, a low level is still a level.
I have a Smart phone, Facebook account,
Twitter account and a blog, but my techo-prowess pales in comparison
to anything my kids are doing.
They will talk about some techno trend
like it is old news and I have not even heard about it yet.
There are all sorts of new gizmos and
devices coming out faster than I can possibly keep track of.
Watches with more computer power than
the original moon landing craft are commonplace and I can only
imagine what the electro-techno world will birth over the coming
years.
The leaps and bounds in technology and
how it is benefitting (and hurting) mankind have been nothing short
of astounding.
When I was a youngster (see, there it
is) there was no such thing as the Internet, but my kids have never
known life without it.
They never had to skim through an
encyclopedia to get the information they were looking for. Instead
they searched for it online.
Just type in a phrase or word and what
you are looking for magically appears on your screen.
Sometimes the search turns up millions
of options – which is kind of like saying we found what you are
looking for, it's on planet Earth – but you can refine your search
and narrow it down to find the information you are looking for.
I must admit, the whole online thing is
way faster and provides a lot more information than those
funny-smelling books that weighed seven pounds each and were out of
date months after they arrived at the school library.
When I graduated school in the early
'80s, computers were a thing of science fiction, or at best a novelty
item you read about in a magazine.
Now, the stupid things are everywhere
and you don't even need a computer to search for something on the
World Wide Web. You can do it from your phone, your iPad, and all
sorts of devices.
I may not be at the top of the tech
game, but I sure find all the different things you can do nowadays
impressive.
When I was a kid (see, there I go
again) I was amazed when I saw my first wireless remote for the TV.
What kind of sorcery is this?
You don't have to get up to change the
channel? To increase the volume? Not even to turn the idiot box off?
Magical.
I am convinced those days marked the
beginning of the Fat Ages, when having to get up and walk seven feet
to your TV was too much effort.
You know you are getting old when a
wireless TV remote was a major technological breakthrough of your
youth.
However, I do try to keep up on the
latest Interweb trends, but some of this stuff is beyond me.
And a lot of the stuff out there
doesn't interest me.
But it is highly unlikely any of this
technology is going away any time soon, so I do what little I can
(and believe me, it is little) to try and stay abreast of the latest
and greatest crazes and trends.
I try, but I know I do not succeed.
Things are just changing too fast for an 'old geezer' like me to stay
on top of.
But I will do my best to maintain some
sort of techno-prowess, even if I don't know what the hell is going
on half the time.
Copyright 2016, Darren Handschuh
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