Rebuilding Rob

As time goes by, it is becoming increasingly difficult for me to imagine my life without a computer.

Professionally, computers are as essential and pencils and paper. In some schools, computers have replaced hard copy media altogether. There are some teachers who still do things “old school” and even calculate grades by hand. But the reality is that most schools today require that grades are submitted and kept electronically. Furthermore, most intra -school and intra-district communication is done via e-mail; thus making computers, or at least smartphones all but a necessity.

The COVID lockdowns, which forced many classes to be held online, may have been the last proverbial nail in the coffin for the traditional, hard-copy, old-school teachers. A lot of people retired or simply left profession. I have to think that at least a few of those who left simply could not adapt to teaching in the digital age.

Short of an major catastrophe. teaching in an Amish community, I do not see how an America school teacher in the 21st century can get around using a computer in some capacity.

Personally, I love my computer and I love my phone. I know, I complain about people who are too connected to their phone, which probably makes me the ultimate hypocrite.

But even if the world changes tomorrow – let’s say baking, booking airline tickets, buying tickets to sporting events all went analog once again, i would be okay.

Of course, a life without computers would mean that you probably would never know Your Favorite Blogger. writers and even aspiring writers would have to depend on traditional means of publication.

Banks would be okay. I remember during the Y2K scare of twenty-plus years ago being informed that banks STILL kept paper copies of everything in the event of such a catastrophe.

Human society got by just fine without computers for a really long time. But it would be different. one of the things I keep saying about computers and social media specifically is they for as much as they have allowed us to connect with each other, they have also enabled us to become increasingly anti-social.

In a old episode of Star Trek, Captain Kirk makes a throw-away reference to a time fir humans when “our weapons grew faster than our minds”. I think we’re definitely living in that time when it comes to our technology. There is so much we are capable of achieving with our technology, both good and bad. With every new breakthrough, we should be asking ourselves: not only can we do this, but should we do this? Is this new breakthrough enhancing our way of life or we compromising our way of life?

What would your life look like without a computer?

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