I saw a post bemoaning the fact that kids
today, they don’t get to read real books, its all Kindle, and they may never
know what its like to hold a real book in their hand, smell the paper, turn the
page. And that they will never have to practice the patience like we did,
waiting for a roll of film to be full so that we could take it to the developer
and wait two weeks to get the prints. “Technology” they said “Is ruining our
kids”
I got to go on a business trip to NYC a
couple years ago.
They picked me up at the airport and took me to the office. Gave me a company car to go to the hotel.
The manager asked if I knew how to get to the hotel.
“I’ll just google up a map and print it off. I’ll be fine”
He looked at me funny and said “Why don’t you just use your phone?”
That’s when I went into my throwback old codger mode.
“Oh no. I don’t use my phone for that kind of thing. That’s a slippery slope for me. I want my phone to just be a phone like the good old days. If I use it for a map today, I might end up using it for working a crossword puzzle tomorrow. God, how I hate the 21st century”
It was about then I realized just how stupid that sounds.
So when the trip was over, and I came back to my world, guess who started using the map function on their phone? Its really quite convenient.
I do crossword puzzles on it too.
Do you really want to wait 3 weeks to get your film developed?
Its not the end of the world. Not yet.
They picked me up at the airport and took me to the office. Gave me a company car to go to the hotel.
The manager asked if I knew how to get to the hotel.
“I’ll just google up a map and print it off. I’ll be fine”
He looked at me funny and said “Why don’t you just use your phone?”
That’s when I went into my throwback old codger mode.
“Oh no. I don’t use my phone for that kind of thing. That’s a slippery slope for me. I want my phone to just be a phone like the good old days. If I use it for a map today, I might end up using it for working a crossword puzzle tomorrow. God, how I hate the 21st century”
It was about then I realized just how stupid that sounds.
So when the trip was over, and I came back to my world, guess who started using the map function on their phone? Its really quite convenient.
I do crossword puzzles on it too.
Do you really want to wait 3 weeks to get your film developed?
Its not the end of the world. Not yet.
2 comments:
Great post Bullets. I had a hard time transitioning from actual books to electronic books too, but once I made the switch I haven't looked back!
You know that someday instead of reading an E Book, all you'll have to do is take a pill. People will say "I miss that electric smell, and the hardshell plastic feel of the Kindle in my hand, and the split second of anticipation while Wuthering Heights is downloaded to my machine"
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