Your life without a computer: what does it look like?
I am old enough that my journalistic career began about the same time as the computer age. Everything Was still DOS and there was no Windows. Most people used an Apple because it was easier to type in articles and set up the newspapers.
Fast forward 30 plus years and I have become so dependent on a laptop or tablet that I can’t even put out an article.
If I am truly trying to create an original article – not something from a press release – I still prefer writing by hand. There is some sort of connection between my brain and the pen; things seem to flow outward down my arm to the pen and onto the paper. Once written, I just type it in and make any needed corrections and adjustments.
Somehow over the past 30 years men like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates have made us so dependent on computers and the internet that our daily lives are entwined with them.
Our lives without a computer in this day and age is basically unthinkable.
Before computers and the internet a power outage was cause for some irritation, but today that same power outage could spell a major disaster as bad as whatever caused the power to go out.
Phone service is tied to the internet. And the numbers needed to call friends and family are stored in the phone. 411 no longer exists; so as the nan says in the song “who you gonna call?”
Life today without a computer and the internet is on the scale of the stone age – as Mr Spock would call it the time of stone knives and bear skins.
What would my life be like without the computer??? Very quiet! There would be no way for me to write and share my work.