I am considered to be a tech tard by my kids. What else would you expect from someone who graduated from HS in 1971 one year before the first expensive hand held calculators were available for sale in 1972. Hey us old guys and gals will be the ones who know how to do things the old fashioned way if things ever break down electronically, the younger kids don’t have a clue. So there all you smarty pants tech geeks, you need us more than we need you.
I can only hope that today’s and future generations have the wisdom to understand and learn from the trials and tribulations of the generations that preceded them. If they don’t, humanity is doomed. Technology and methods of doing things will change over time, but true wisdom is timeless.
Computers and similar technology are making things such that we don’t have to learn to write on paper, but I don’t think that is necessarily such a good thing (writings on paper can last for centuries, but digital information could literally be gone in a flash if things like EMP events happen).
I sincerely hope that younger generations appreciate and try to assimilate the knowledge and wisdom of the people that have come before them, especially family members that have literally given them life. Most of them lived their lives with the purpose of giving their offspring a better life than they had, and we should treasure their love and wisdom they bequeathed to us.
I bought a TI SR-10 in ’72.
It still works!
I graduated in ’72, and still code almost every day. But when Windows puts out an ‘upgrade’ I find myself asking others ‘where did that function go?’ because it got moved to subterranean folder 1024 since ‘no one needs that anymore’. I’m not a stick-in-the-mud, just like my favorite things to stay put.
And not poop your pants
I am considered to be a tech tard by my kids. What else would you expect from someone who graduated from HS in 1971 one year before the first expensive hand held calculators were available for sale in 1972. Hey us old guys and gals will be the ones who know how to do things the old fashioned way if things ever break down electronically, the younger kids don’t have a clue. So there all you smarty pants tech geeks, you need us more than we need you.
I can only hope that today’s and future generations have the wisdom to understand and learn from the trials and tribulations of the generations that preceded them. If they don’t, humanity is doomed. Technology and methods of doing things will change over time, but true wisdom is timeless.
Computers and similar technology are making things such that we don’t have to learn to write on paper, but I don’t think that is necessarily such a good thing (writings on paper can last for centuries, but digital information could literally be gone in a flash if things like EMP events happen).
I sincerely hope that younger generations appreciate and try to assimilate the knowledge and wisdom of the people that have come before them, especially family members that have literally given them life. Most of them lived their lives with the purpose of giving their offspring a better life than they had, and we should treasure their love and wisdom they bequeathed to us.
I bought a TI SR-10 in ’72.
It still works!
I graduated in ’72, and still code almost every day. But when Windows puts out an ‘upgrade’ I find myself asking others ‘where did that function go?’ because it got moved to subterranean folder 1024 since ‘no one needs that anymore’. I’m not a stick-in-the-mud, just like my favorite things to stay put.