Rant number 159
I have realised that there is an unhealthy amount of computer usage going on in my life! I'm surrounded by the bloody things!
I wake up each morning and check my Facebook on my Smartphone (which is, after all a mini computer (in fact, and to show my age a little - my phone has around 20 times more processing power than my first PC...)) then head off to work.
Once I get to work, the first thing I do each and every morning, is to turn my computer on.
Following this, I then tap away at it for approx. 8 1/2 hours, before heading homewards.
Once there, I tap tap away away on my phone some more, or on my laptop or on the wife's iPad. Even my rant needs to be written on one of these devices.
When did I become so plugged in? Its like some prophecy from a technophobic film. Who now doesn't live their lives around their computers and their phone: very few people indeed.
Its impossible to live your life without it now. Even simple things have computers in them. Your TV's EPG is a simple computer, everything you read in the papers - has been put written, laid out and set on a computer. The buses run on a computer timetable, the financial system is all computer based. There is nothing you can do to avoid it, however old or luddite you may be!
Put it this way, if someone ever invents a virus that eats silicone: we are proper fucked!
Rant over.
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