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And you remember how we used to get things done. You've used a paper notebook, consulted a map, figured out a library, kept a calendar, calculated change for a $20, got film developed into photographs, made anonymous phone calls, and written commands in DOS. You have some grounds for comparison. 5 comments
@jill_the_pill @researchfairy i read a lot, learned a lot, did a lot, and was properly feeling self-fulfilment then for some reason later in 2015 i decided to digitise everything and that correlated, perhaps causally, with a drop in all of those now i had very negatively impactful life events around then also, so it's not a healthy comparison, but i do thing there is zero effect either nowadays i often fantasise about "de-computerising" myself, but can't be sure enough to follow thru 2/2 @kutuptiyini @jill_the_pill @researchfairy I really like computers, and I think they do a lot of useful and beautiful things. However, I do think that this effort to put computers EVERYWHERE in EVERYONE'S life is a big mistake. @researchfairy @jill_the_pill I marvel at how I (mostly) got to the right place at the right time in towns and cities I’d never previously visited before the internet and SatNav. It’s a bit of a mystery to me how I / we used to do it. @jill_the_pill @researchfairy quite frankly, I would trade DOS for the clunky IWMS system we have now. |
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@jill_the_pill @researchfairy i've this weird "arc", i guess, w/ computers
i accidentally acquired one as an elementary schooler, early 2000s. we could never afford one, it was weird luck. but i quickly became entranced with coding and self-taught everything to do w/ computers. so a properly well rounded techie i was as 2010s rolled in
but then, when i (re)started uni around 2014, for a couple years i barely used computers for anything. those two years were my most "productive" ever 1/2