Full blown into the computer age, few modern households are without some form of computing technology…even if it is only a phone.
But long before the electronic technology arrived, we all had access to a different type of computer… our BRAINS!
In “Hidden Figures” Catherine tells Jim Johnson on their first meeting about how many calculations she does in a single day.
And Dorothy reminds Catherine to make that pencil move as fast as her brain.
For some of us, that computer between our ears can work pretty fast to solve problems while “working in the background” to keep our bodies moving and working.
For some of us, our “computers” rely on a whole different form of communication and computing. We are “wired” a bit differently.
Left handed people for example. With the population of the world predominantly right handed, us lefties must find our own way to compensate for the difference – to “re-wire” our computers to adjust to the difference.
Working in a television studio in junior college, half the crew was left-handed. One day one of the guys came in with a shirt that said, “if the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then left-handed people must be the only ones in their right mind!”.
Well, that may or may not be true, but it is true we have to think a bit differently.
To most people, I play my guitar upside down. I can read upside down too :).
My first technological computer was one of the original Apple computers that looked like a box with a little screen in it and a slot for the small plastic “floppy discs”.
I got some scholarship money that was specifically for buying a computer and I marched myself to the campus computer store and got my very first electronic computer. Boy, I thought I had something too. And back then, it was!