mike escribió:
I get the feeling Betty is that farmer on the side of the road 100 years ago ridiculing his neighbor for using a fancy tractor with one of those engines to plow his field instead of the tried and true mule or team of horses. Sure the next few years...decade...the horse was pretty reliable, but it didn't take long before that farmer was left behind still crowing about how bad those jalopies were. I think back to teaching my great uncle the computer basics, a man with two doctorates, a world traveler, decorated officer in WW2, composer...friend to several presidents. The computer was just beyond him...technology had grown from his grasp of the age he was born in. Will we be like that when our children or grand children are running around with the newest tech?
Hej sonny boy. Old folks in your great uncle's generation--and older--invented computers.
I studied programming long before PCs. I've worked for companies via the Internet and never met any other employees in person. My brother and I built a mechanical computer as a school project [after the 5 foot slide rule was done]. There are sensible uses for technology, fun things to do, expensive business applications, and pie-in-the-sky geek fantasies.
It makes sense to use redundant remote storage for business. It's overkill for an individual to store all personal files remotely. It's also stupid. Why? The Internet isn't everywhere, so your files are locked away in the "cloud" until you can get them. I store duplicates of important files on the Internet for when we're traveling. Most of the time I can't access them from our remote locations, so I have to carry cryptic info with me.
Put your imagination to work on something more useful. Why not write some viruses? That's a fun hobby.
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