On 07/22/2010 08:06 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
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It has escaped my notice all these years, until recently, right about the time
that my testosterone began to wane,
I wonder how long it is until somebody realises that computers, computer
systems, mobile phones,
hybrid tech monsters such as the iPhone and the iPad are just
cough-cough-cough extensions
under an awful lot of circumstances, and often cough-cough-cough
substitutes for those who, for
odd psychological reasons, feel that they may be cough-cough-cough
inadequate in some sort of
way.
I think this first came home to me in 1984, when, at the age of 22, with
quite a lot of fairly stagnant
water under the bridge, I joined a computer course at my University
(Durham, England) full of
'boys' who were 18.
We did all our work in a seriously depressing room underground with
serried rows of blind terminals.
One day I came in and found all the 'young chaps' clustered round
another chap (come to think of it,
I remember he was called 'Richard Blue' - Ashkenazy from London;
brilliant mathematical brain, even
fewer social skills than I had . . . err, have) with something that
looked like a Geiger counter: a personal
computer, no less. Of course, as a 22 year old I wasn't going to be seen
dead going "Ooh" and "Aah"
with the 18 year olds; but internally I was churning with envy.
This was all "completely ridiculous" of course; unlike those 'babies' I
came complete with girlfriend and
all the maturity that 4 more years could chuck at me (and quite a lot
had been chucked at me). But there
I was green with envy, and somehow feeling inadequate.
3 years later, when I was working at a school for maladjusted kids I
bought a fake, hollow, plastic car-phone
that I strapped to my bike . . . enough of my embarrassing true
confessions for now:
Let's hear yours . . . :)
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