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My car has a feature I would like to not use. Every so often it will put up a nanny message of " Taking your eyes off the road blah blah blah". Not only is it a moronic message, but it actually requires you to now take a hand off the wheel to acknowledge it.
Plenty of retired people worked with computers and technology of one form or another.
One of our friends just retired from a high level job developing and maintaining computer systems for Chase Bank. Another was doing those electronics for sports reporting which included the computer graphic overlays that seem to be on the football fields. I spent some years designing and testing computer algorithms for quality control in medical laboratories. My wife retired from art education and even in that field was an early computer adopter and set up a college computer lab and training syllabus.
High school kids might be whizzes at sending texts and social media content but most I have met barely have a hint as to the power of the technologies we have been using for the past several decades.
Plenty of retired people worked with computers and technology of one form or another.
One of our friends just retired from a high level job developing and maintaining computer systems for Chase Bank. Another was doing those electronics for sports reporting which included the computer graphic overlays that seem to be on the football fields. I spent some years designing and testing computer algorithms for quality control in medical laboratories. My wife retired from art education and even in that field was an early computer adopter and set up a college computer lab and training syllabus.
High school kids might be whizzes at sending texts and social media content but most I have met barely have a hint as to the power of the technologies we have been using for the past several decades.
Well that is not the average older person, that is a computer expert you were talking about..In my experience, when I need to figure out why my songs are playing but no music is coming out, why I can’t get my Reminders back after an update, its kids who know how to fix that stuff not older people.
I am 61 and bought an iPad when they first came out, I also love my smart phone and I am in no way a Luddite but I feel slowly but surely I am getting driven into an app based world without my consent.
At a recent pre-op I took a Covid-19 test and I was texted instructions to go to the Google play store in order to get an app to see my test results. The movie cinemaplex we go to has gone over to assigned seating to encourage you to go online to purchase your seats. No more general admission seating. Two recent aquariums we visited both required purchases of tickets online.
While I understand the seriousness of COVID-19 I think a lot of businesses have gone online to streamline their business.
Technology is pretty cool and the fact that I can book a room through Hilton, pick that room, bypass the front desk and use my phone to get into the room is The Jetsons becoming reality. I can also get my boarding pass on my smartphone, although southwest now has me printing out my own luggage destination tag at their kiosk much Walmarts self checkouts
Again I love technology and innovation and it is only going to open more doors to businesses in the future but I would still like to have a choice in the way I make my purchases.
Plenty of retired people worked with computers and technology of one form or another.
One of our friends just retired from a high level job developing and maintaining computer systems for Chase Bank. Another was doing those electronics for sports reporting which included the computer graphic overlays that seem to be on the football fields. I spent some years designing and testing computer algorithms for quality control in medical laboratories. My wife retired from art education and even in that field was an early computer adopter and set up a college computer lab and training syllabus.
High school kids might be whizzes at sending texts and social media content but most I have met barely have a hint as to the power of the technologies we have been using for the past several decades.
Some of my recently hired apprentices are just out of high school. I asked one to fill out her time card as she had not added up her eight hour days. She could not multiply 8 x 6 in her head. When in class they cannot do simple division. Yes, they do take an entrance test for the apprenticeship but they are allowed to use calculators.
Computers are amazing along with smart phones, but are we losing basic skills in the process?
My car has a feature I would like to not use. Every so often it will put up a nanny message of " Taking your eyes off the road blah blah blah". Not only is it a moronic message, but it actually requires you to now take a hand off the wheel to acknowledge it.
My car does that, too. Why isn't this message blocked unless the car is in Park?
Horse & buggies for all of you for Christmas. Someone will be by to collect the "too fancy, overly-complicated gadget-laden, vehicles" you selected to buy as well as the "too complicated" mobile devices you all elected to purchase, but didn't have to.
Most auto companies have different trim levels in their models, and the only way to get all the gadgets a car has is to buy the highest and most expensive levels of the model. The lower trim levels generally don't have the fancy entertainment megacenter consoles, the higher end speakers or all wireless this or that. I avoid in-dash nav systems because they're overpriced AND I have my own nav device (Garmin).
It's up to the purchaser to control by not buying what you don't need just because a vehicle has it, and if it has features you don't want, don't use them!
I have built-in navigation, along with OnStar, because I only have a landline. I actually bought the most expensive Buick Encore in the five-county area because I wanted all the options. The difference is that while AWD, HD radio, direct injection engine, and built-in navigation are useful to me, many of the changes (computer operating systems, for example), seem to be attempts at reinventing the wheel, instead of providing real progress.
As far as horse and buggies, there's no shortage of those in my area. I actually rode in a horse and buggy, along with a DC-3, and a Ford Model A back when a missionary group used to host an annual air show. The Amish buy horses after their racing careers are over. Gives the horses job security.
My car has a feature I would like to not use. Every so often it will put up a nanny message of " Taking your eyes off the road blah blah blah". Not only is it a moronic message, but it actually requires you to now take a hand off the wheel to acknowledge it.
Mine does too! If it happens too much, I tell her "If you say that again, I'm gonna let you out at the next stop".
Computers are amazing along with smart phones, but are we losing basic skills in the process?
<several decades ago>The printing press is amazing, along with books everyone can now afford, but are we losing basic skills in the process? <back to the present>
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