Why Less Then Half Of My Generation Even Bother With PCs
Via Slashdot… The Pew Internet and American Life Project has released a report outlining who among us are using computers and computer technology regularly. About half of my generation hardly even bother with it all. God, I hope they’re not all getting their news from Fox…
Popular Mechanics’ columnist Glenn Derene asks "What keeps the personal computer from being a universally accepted technology?" Let me hazard a guess…
Memo To A Certain Someone Down In Orlando: Yes…I know. Computer technology can be a real bear sometimes. And my trade is largely responsible for that, and I’m sorry. We should listen to the people who have to use the stuff we create better then we do. But there is a whole wide wonderful and enriching world out there that you’re missing. A world where a casual stroll down a trail can take you from Mark Twain to H.L. Mencken to Einstein to the study of extra-solar planets. The blazes on these trails span the written word to the spoken one, to new music, paintings, photography from all over the world. An afternoon hike can take you across time and space, to the light from near the beginning of time. It’s worth the hassle it often still is. Really.
