It looks like having to scramble, a bit of thumb twiddling, and searching the memory banks for what I used to do before I could reach for the iPad or sit in front of the desktop.
No more easy ordering off of Amazon, no YouTube clips, no Chat GPT queries, no Wikipedia look-ups, no quick news updates. No more world at one’s fingertips.
It means giving the library card a workout. It means making a To Do list. It means maybe sitting in front of the piano a bit more often, or dusting off the guitar and finally developing some callouses. Maybe it means going outside and being less sedentary. It might mean having to brush up on conversation skills.
I’d consider it a step backwards, though, because for all the lip people of a certain mindset give it, when one moves beyond the stock complaint about it being a distraction, I consider the computer and most of what it has brought an advancement– a marvelous, (r)evolutionary innovation that can make one’s life easier and better. And if the attendant technology was gone with it, then maybe we’d have to say goodbye to safer air travel, healthcare innovations and charting, the smart TV, GPS, and even my Golf Buddy.
Life without a computer would be a return to some sort of Dark Ages.
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