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| When I attended UCR, I had made the quantum leap with another antiquated technology- I bought a Brother Word Processor, which folded two sides into a case. It had a keyboard with a spiral cord like on a telephone. The monitor was built in as was a printer which was a typewriter head- paper was inserted sheet by sheet. At least the ink was a cartridge that could easily be replaced. It was not until I was confronted with the necessity of using a computor that I really had my first techno-shock (I'm thinking Future Shock). I had to acclimate to the new enviroment of the electronic age. I had not made the shift from analogue to digital-except in my CD player and CD collection (another marketing revolution). However, digital was all around me, or should I say the microchip. My approach to technology had always been from an economic consideration. I could only afford small bites-like a new CD. Computors, like higher education seemed like an artifact from an institution-which I really did not understand. It was only for business and geeks, right? | ||||
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