so fast... Well, not that fast. But always it seems fast when you look back (at least for me).
But soon I'll be on the road again and I hope to give you lots of impressions and pics from where I'm going. Hehe... won't say anything more at this point. You'll see.
There's one thought that I would like to ponder about: Isn't it terrible that we're so dependent on our technologies? I got close to a nervous breakdown yesterday when my laptop refused to work properly. But why, actually? Do I depend that much on one single electrical device? Truthful answer would be yes, I guess. But an electrical device which is not working properly is for me the utmost stupidity. I spent hours and hours with this silly little device until finally it seemed to be assuaged and consented in working again. It feels like I'm using a vacuum cleaner, which breaks down and on which I have to spend hours to repair it. Instead I should just grab a broom. But sadly this analogy doesn't work for a laptop. Where's the broom here? It is sad that we (yes, you too!) depend too much on our technology. Could we do all our daily stuff without them? I'm doing lots of writing on my laptop - I would have to go back to pen and paper. Even more dreadful it would be to make all my calculations and simulations (for work) by hand?! How could that even work? Could it work? But it must have worked some time! I remember an assistant of a class from my school who always amazed me. While I had trouble calculating those line impedances and matching two things together and - most of all - couldn't do it without a calculator, he would do it without a problem and without a calculator!!! Imagine what people have achieve without computers and calculators! Could we do it again? Now? Without them? You know, somehow I doubt it. That's a skill that doesn't come easy. I guess we would have to relearn it. I start by calculating more in my head (good plan (^_^)). It is really a shame that computers have become omnipresent... Hard for me to say it as I cannot imagine work without them. But ask you parents or grandparents... they were raised without them. No wonder it's hard for them to learn how to handle them. I mean such a laptop is really a strange little thing...
Life really seems to have changed rapidly over the last few decades...
I leave you to your own thoughts.
Monday, October 27, 2008
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Well... Quite close to my point of view. We've almost forgotten how life would be (or used to be) in its genuine form. And it's sad that a very great portion of the things that technology has brought to us, is not ultimately useful, or even is not "necessary" at all. We could, e.g. live without most of the services that a cellphone offers besides the communication. And some might even believe that the communication itself is not "always" quite useful...
And you know what? The reason that our parents and grandparents usually have difficulty learning to work with computers -or other modern electronic devices in general- is not that they cannot learn how to work with them; it is, however, just because they've learnt and believed that "life is possible without all of these"... And it's funny that our ancestors had much more time in their life, because they never spent the time we spend on computers today. And they're also productive enough, and even more productive than us without the modern thecnology...
Sometime I think what would happen to me if I didn't have access to these oceans of information, i.e., the internet?!... Hmmm... Probably nothing, but I would go "just" for those pieces of information that I needed, not all the things that this addictive magic box (I mean the computer) can provide me with...
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I'm not in enmity with the modern technology (you know that we're both doing our PhD on developing the technology), but sometimes we need to remind it ourselves that life is possible without these devices, although it's now too hard for us to return to our geniune life... Thanks for reminding anyway... (^_^)
I made a post out of this terrible comment in my blog! You see?! Blogging itself is one of the thing that without it, we could be happier and could have much more time than today! (^_-)
(I'll continue following your posts anyway!)
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