But to someone my age - 71 - today’s technology is so much easier than what we had for technology, it would be pitiful if the young weren’t as good it.
In a panic I turned around. Behind me, giggling into their hands, were a bunch of PhDs and assorted geeks who thought this was the highlight of the week.
It’s a deceiving idea, that younger folks are more tech savvy and older folks are lost in technology. It’s kind of like thinking that primitive people weren’t good at fire-starting because they didn’t know how to operate a Bic lighter. Or maybe it’s the reverse: today’s youth are better at starting fires, than was primitive man, because of the Bic lighter. Either way, the credit goes to the lighter, not the cleverness of the youngster.
Why do I feel so lazy every time I get into my room?
Anyone who used a computer at all, knew enough to write a simple program from scratch. Today’s kids can operate programs all day long, year after year even when they know no coding at all. They don’t have to. In the old days we used to write little programs all the time, just to wind each other up. I once wrote a program where someone in my office could answer three questions: How tall are you? What is your favorite drink? What is your favorite baseball team, and the computer would tell you your initials!!!! Of course I had plugged in the answers and initials for everyone in the office in an if-then kind of format. But the less technical colleagues thought the computer was magical when they saw this. Good fun.
One summer in the late 1970s, I worked at the Texas Instruments gold assay lab. Some serious nerds worked with me and they played a trick, and had me inputting some data to a program someone wrote for fun. After about two or three minutes of inputting data, the monitor flashed DATA OVERFLOW!!! Then there was the sound of running water and a water level-line crept up the screen like a sink overflowing. When it reached the top of the screen, there were sparks, flashing lights and ZAPs and the whole screen suddenly went black. I broke the system?!?!
We didn’t have access to computers until the 1970s and 80s, and people my age were in their thirties or forties by then. We had already missed the really absorbent stage of brain development. But we were still able to figure out how to make a computer out of an old black and white TV and a tape recorder. You youngsters who can do this today, raise your hand. I’ll wait.
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And it may change. Today’s young people may someday become inept at the next iteration of technology. Young people today grew up with the kind of technology we are using today; drop-down menus and some symbols that have become some kind of a standard. And they started when they were so young, it was easy to learn this stuff.
Further, we had no drop-down multiple-choice menus and automatic log-ins. We couldn’t even get started if we didn’t know DOS or Basic. I think it was C:Logon and that would bring you to an empty green screen. You had to know more DOS programming or you went no further. Everything was case-sensitive and all software was custom. No in-house or on-line tech support either.
So it’s entirely possible that today’s technology will change fast enough to leave a lot of today’s young, smug geeks behind. Just as it did those of us who were once at the leading edge in our cohort.
Hi everybody! I have been looking at posts on narcs and narc abuse on here and if has really helped me out a lot. I am currently struggling with my situation and need some advice/support.
I met a narc last year, everything seemed to good to be true. Love bombing, always texting calling and taking me on dates. Everything changed when someone warned me about him out in public in front of him and who he is. This caused a conflict with us and the love bombing seized.
he would tell me that everything is okay and i can come and talk. He would set a time limit on me and kick me out after that.
he would then text me like everything was fine and we hung out again and after that he completely ghosted me for one week. He came back and texted me a week later laughing about the ghosting and acting like nothing had happened.
he continued to text me ( not like in the beginning) make plans with me, then on the day of the plans he would just ghost me. One day he would act interested the next silence.
i contacted him a month later and he acted like nothing happened. He was on a vacation and sent me a picture of another woman ( someone he allegedly met on the trip) to strike a reaction but i never gave him one. After the trip he came to my place and was extremely rude, accusing me of going on dates with a bunch of men. The next day he accused me of being an alcoholic and that he wanted nothing to do with me but said well maybe we can be "friends" then ghosted me
i assumed at this point it was over and i would never hear from him again. He contacted me on the holiday a month later acting like everything was great. We ended up hanging out a month or so later and when we hung out it went well, i thought things were going in the right direction.
after we hung out.. silence. I would try to text him and if he replied it would be very short then he just stopped replying. He ghosted me for almost three months. I thought he was done this time and of course he popped up again like nothing happened. At this point i was getting sick of if so i questioned him as to why he dissapeared and always does this. Of course he had some sob story about a injury and family member dying of cancer. I felt pity for him and he gave me an apology.. so i took him back stupidly.
things seemed to be going smooth for a couple months, of course until his family member died and his injury got better he never contacted me and was distant. Menawhile, i was there for him during the difficult time for him. He lied to me about the funeral and never wanted to chat. I was chasing him and he would always claim nothing was wrong but when i said i thought he used me when he was down he could not handle it and would always tell me he didnt care and to go away. I would get so upset i would try texting him to work it out he would barelt respond and if he did he would not be nice about it.
we did hang out a couple times after that, he would ignore me after. One day i was like hey i think you are seeing someone else, and i was like well ixam seeing someone so no problem if you are he said " buy bye good luck with your new guy stop contacting me" i was devastated and tried to get into contact with him for weeks then i just gave up and accepted it was over. He ended up contacting me a month later acting like everything was fine. He wanted to go out and have drinks i told him i would. He and i both seemed to have a great time. He ends up ignoring me again. I kept texting him trying to figure out what was wrong. He kept saying everything was fine and i said ok can we hang out again? He said maybe i was like why? He just kept saying maybe …
our last conversation we had… i said what is wrong ? He said nothing is wrong everything is fine. I asked him why he keeps saying maybe. He said " maybe but i dont want to see you right now" i said why? He saix " im just not feeling it, if i wanted to date i would" i said why did you contact me less then a week ago wanting to go out? He said i didnt.. even though he did. So i said should i just move on or what? He said whatever you want to do. So i said that he was really confusing me and asked him if he had anything more to say before i move on? My messages were turning green so i panicked he blocked me and reacted irrationally. I said " omg did you block me? My messages are not going through. Even texted him on my work phone asking what was up. And called him twice ( please dont judge me i know it is pathetic i never was this type of girl before him) so he replied and said " Ok I'll block you now" then immedietly blocked me. He has never blocked me before since I have met him he will just ghost. Is this ths final discard aka " grand finale? Did i just push him too far?
this has upset me so much its hard to even function.
