Technology phobe? I sure miss the ole days...

[Satires]

Do you feel the same??? Does technology scare you? Does it hide in the dark corner of your mind, wondering, waiting, wondering who knows?

You know? It was just yesterday (For me), when I actually had to bust ass to find a song I liked! Now? It's there on the web to swipe in the blink of an eye or an bat of the eye lash....

So what gives?

It's too easy! There's no challenge!

Though my plight and opinion mirror a very few, the internet has done far more harm than good...

Yeah, I use the mobile techology. When I'm Horny, I just punch up, well, you know... If I wanna here a song, I just punch it up in a search engine!

Something isn't settling right with me here...

Something is very wrong...

I voluntarily blogged all kinds of personal crap! You may not know me personally, but someone out there DOES!

Privacy died when the internet was born in my opinion...

I somehow feel, infected....

I only pray for death now...

I can only pray to be re-born in a world that lacks technology, and truly embraces the human spirit on a REAL level! Not artificial...

This place we call home? A fish bowl, is running out of spiritual oxygen...

More will float to the top, just as I am...

This world is merely artificial with the technology involved, prepared boxed foods loaded with chemicals and genetic engineering...

You go on and live by YOUR god, profit, power and money....

I choose to follow a God that emodies human arts, crafts, experiences, humanity and love...

God is not here in this world in my opinion.

In my opinion we were designed to hunt and live off of the land, not have these dipsh*t devices and computers to dumb us down and keep our heads down looking at a small screen rather than the big picture.

So distracted we live! When is the last time you have seen the beauty of mother nature or even felt empathy for a lost spirit?

When is the last time you actually learned something about YOU and YOUR endurance?

Could you live off of the land? Could you kill bambi or even perhaps the family dog in the name of survival? I bet you don't have a clue...

It doesn't make you a bad person, it makes you a product of today's environment. No self reliance in a time of need... Totally reliant on big brother...

Life is what you make it!

If your faith or belief is strong enough in any given thing, it can manifest!

So why not belive in YOU!

 

[Bob Maxey]

Review your history. We are simply enjoying the same problems those before us dealt with. For example, when the Singer introduced the Sewing Machine, people thought it would destroy the sewing industry and put people out of work.

It brought more people into the business because it made sewing easier and the costs were lower. It also put people to work building Singer's machines as well as the parts. Stores made money selling them and that put people to work.

Now, cheap labor is what kills us.

Easy access to movies, TV, music and books is great, but there is a dark side called IP theft. The same thing happened with cassettes became available so IP issues are not new.

The problem is you can DL hundreds of songs and movies and store them on cheap computers with vast storage capabilities and it is becomming easier and faster.

I seem to recall paying IBM for a 512 K memory board. It was a full size card. The expansion card cost 700.00 or so. Now, you can buy lots of storage for 700.00. I have seen TDK Core Memory boards that added perhaps 2 K of memory to I forget what. I think the boards cost thousands.

We can quickly bring down a company, hurt a political candidate, view illegal content, download the entire Beatles library, meet people from all corners of the planet and steal money through ID theft before lunch and that is very new indeed. Bad things can quickly happen. In the old days, it was difficult to cause problems. But not now.

I suggest a few days away form the computer to gain a little perspective. There is great joy and horrid sorrow in every age of man.

 

[Satires]

Review your history. We are simply enjoying the same problems those before us dealt with. For example, when the Singer introduced the Sewing Machine, people thought it would destroy the sewing industry and put people out of work.

It brought more people into the business because it made sewing easier and the costs were lower. It also put people to work building Singer's machines as well as the parts. Stores made money selling them and that put people to work.

Now, cheap labor is what kills us.

Easy access to movies, TV, music and books is great, but there is a dark side called IP theft. The same thing happened with cassettes became available so IP issues are not new.

The problem is you can DL hundreds of songs and movies and store them on cheap computers with vast storage capabilities and it is becomming easier and faster.

I seem to recall paying IBM for a 512 K memory board. It was a full size card. The expansion card cost 700.00 or so. Now, you can buy lots of storage for 700.00. I have seen TDK Core Memory boards that added perhaps 2 K of memory to I forget what. I think the boards cost thousands.

We can quickly bring down a company, hurt a political candidate, view illegal content, download the entire Beatles library, meet people from all corners of the planet and steal money through ID theft before lunch and that is very new indeed. Bad things can quickly happen. In the old days, it was difficult to cause problems. But not now.

I suggest a few days away form the computer to gain a little perspective. There is great joy and horrid sorrow in every age of man.

This is a very educated response I truly respect.

Maybe I'm getting old in a hurry...

I still intend on walking away though...

It's un natural.

But then again, so is any radio signal...

I'm just being a drunken philosopher here...

I sure miss what I see in black and white photos, though I was never there... Or was I?

Something just doesn't settle right with me.

 

[FredParks]

I think it's usually called "Technophobe".

 

[zuben el genub]

I could probably live off the land - I am an amateur naturalist and you can't really help learning some properties of plants if you are into the subject. We also grew most of our produce. I remember my mother canning all summer as stuff came into season. We had a root cellar for the rest.

I do see the beauty in nature. I watch the seasons, photograph, enjoy. Always have.

I like my technology. Birding with a cell phone app is more enjoyable since more info is there. The old bird books tried to give you the bird songs with words or sonograms, but the new apps on the phone give you the actual call of the bird. Makes it easier to tell a Black-capped chickadee from a Mountain chickadee when you just hear the bird.

Some of the new astronomy apps are fantastic. I had 2 really good ones on the Palm, the new ones on android are very good. You can use your cell phone or tablet as a "push-to" if needed. I like the hunt for a DSO, but with light pollution it can be hard.

I like Astronomy and geology as it gives you a true perspective on where and what you are.

I guess I just see the internet as a vast encyclopedia with the opportunity to go beyond the local library. (I have newer and better books in some topics than the local library has)

As for phones and tablets - I can carry the equivalent of 20 books in a small device. I couldn't carry that many physically and be comfortable.

I haven't been in a movie theater since Star Trek 4. This doesn't count IMAX documentaries. I don't really do social web sites. I do belong to forums, though.

I learned a lot about Android - phones and OS from here. I do research before I buy.

I do resent being told that I have to fit the normal usage of any product.

 

[Bob Maxey]

It's un natural.

But then again, so is any radio signal...

I'm just being a drunken philosopher here...

I sure miss what I see in black and white photos, though I was never there... Or was I?

Something just doesn't settle right with me.

You sound sad. Do not be because you can change many things.

Not to pick a nit, but radio waves are absolutely natural. Just part of the big, wonderful electromagnetic spectrum that can be found everywhere across the universe.

By the way, I still use black and white film. 4 x 5 and 8 x 10. Sometimes, medium format and increasingly, 35 mm. I usually carry a Leica CL rather than a digital camera. I spent many years in a professional darkroom and you can learn to make great black and white pictures.

When I need high resolution, now, I mean right now . . . I turn to the RED. Gotts love those 4096 x 2048 images. For me, film is the only answer. Oddly enough, I can process and print a negative with a high degree of quality faster than many professionals can create a digital print.

Old school and far superior to digital in every respect except the time it takes to go from digital file to digital print. And speed is not a virtue. Heck, a good darkroom worker and/or photographer can do things tat are difficult to do with PS.

Like take pictures of a ballroom filled with people and make the people disappear without any darkroom magic. Take that, PS.

Old school is my Alma Mater, after all.

So, I say buy a film camera and start shooting. The reason we have NO film compared to when we had many manufacturers and perhaps 200 different stocks and Kodak manufacture and sold 100 different Aerial films alone, is because of digital. Damn lazy people killed film. I say go for it and stop missing what is still available.

By the way, my Bessa was discontinued probably before your parents were born and they will out perform most digital cameras.

 

[Bob Maxey]

I could probably live off the land - I am an amateur naturalist and you can't really help learning some properties of plants if you are into the subject. We also grew most of our produce. I remember my mother canning all summer as stuff came into season. We had a root cellar for the rest.

If the unthinkable happened, I think many would starve. Knowing the basics is good knowledge. Unfortunately, the worse among us would use violence to get food if something terrible happened/happens.

And these days, it is not hard to imagine a few terrible scenarios. Like some scientists develop a strain of corn that is highly drought tolerant and resistant to pests crossing with weeds. Now we have fast growing weeds that are hard to kill.

Or zombees. They scare me. Especially if they begin to crave blood.

But with Halloween approaching, then turkey day and Santa arriving soon after the bird dies, we should talk about happy things.

 

[novox77]

we all have a choice when it comes to embracing technology or not. Claiming that technology is evil or sin is nothing new. Some people still think controlling electricity is evil.

If the world were to shun technology, would life be better? And where would you draw the line? Medieval times? I can assure you life was not very good for people back then. Yet, they did have technology; they built houses, had some ability to work with iron and stone.

If you were to shun that tech as well, then we could go back to cavemen who had fire and wooden spears as their tech. Was that unnatural as well? Take that away, and what do you have left?

The point is that technology is a manifestation of our intelligence. Even some animals build tools to make some task easier. If it came from us, it's perfectly natural because we created it with our minds and hands.

What's more likely happening is that as humans, we are somewhat resistant to change, but things are constantly evolving. Every generation, you hear the same kind of "when I was your age" statements where there's a heavy implication that the "old" way of doing things was better. In truth, it's not necessarily better; just different.

There's nothing wrong with believing what you do about technology, and I believe there is no inherent harm in embracing technology. And I don't think we have to go back to cavemen times to truly appreciate nature. But having some experience of doing things the harder way is never a bad thing.

 

[saptech]

As Neil Young once said:

It's better to burn out
Than to fade away.

Out of the blue
and into the black
They give you this,
but you pay for that
And once you're gone,
you can never come back
When you're out of the blue
and into the black.

It's better to burn out
than it is to rust.

There's more to the picture
Than meets the eye.

You're probably burning out on technology. I know I am. I've been working with computers for 20+ years from mainframes to PCs. As Bob mention, take a good break away from the computers etc.

 

[mikedt]

Much as I love modern technology, Android devices, internet, PCs, cable TV. I do like to unplug occasionally. Fortunately that's quite easy to do in a small city in Inner Mongolia. Just go out to the grasslands for a day or two, with nothing but a bicycle and backpack.