Difficult or Easier?

Your life without a computer: what does it look like?

As I have a hunger for knowledge I guess I’d be doing a lot more reading. I’d probably not be blogging, I’d be doing my daily journal. Beyond that as a kid of the 60s i guess I’d just be getting on with things. I don’t do the social media stuff, I’ve never had it so I’ll never miss it, so that would never be an issue for me.

And I believe that’s the difference. If you lived in an age when you didn’t have a computer, stepping back to that way of living wouldn’t be so much of a hardship. Yep there are things we all benefit from as a result of having computers, but we managed without them and we survived.

A child of the computer era would suffer purely as they know no other way. For them it would be a totally new way of life, but for us of a certain generation it would be “Ok, let’s get on with it”, we’ve done it before, we can do it again.

Times change, people change, life goes on.

Peace everyone

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Author: Balders

Passionate hobbyist, restoring the past, one old camera at a time. iPhone14 Max Pro - Sony A7II and about 80 others from the days of silver halide 📸 Main aim in life - Retirement

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  1. So far there are still the “non-computer” predecessors of functions we now use computers for: there are still newspapers, mail service, television, radio, recordings, and libraries full of books. For that matter film photography is still about. If computers all disappeared we’d be able to adapt (some more easily than others).
    But eventually those older methods may disappear – many are already no longer ‘mainstream’ – or be relegated to the category of museum curiosity. News papers are already vanishing.
    It’s weird to me because I learned the ‘ancient’ art of type setting when I was young, and the ‘modern’ art of programming decades later. Maybe I belong in a museum too.

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