The other day I realized that I was carrying around my latte and jump drive like a 21st century version of coffee and a cigarette – holding the paper cup in my right hand, with the first two fingers clutching the drive like a cigarette.A far cry from 1984, when a photographer plopped me down in front of a VDT to take my picture for a journalism scholarship I was awarded. I'd never seen this machine in my life. I wasn't working at the college newspaper yet and other than that there was no computer to be had anywhere. I was scared to death, thinking that I would someday have to work on a computer.
Now technology is a lot of fun and shows up in some really odd places. I even got a CD in my 3-pack of Puffs this morning. "The History of Snot," or something. Perfect for allergy season!
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I'm trying to remember when we got our first computer system -- I remember we went to see the very first "Star Wars" movie with the techs, so it must have been 1977. We all were hunkered down ready to protest, and even after we were up and running, it took months to convince everyone they didn't HAVE to print out every story, every single bit of work. Giving up that paper was hard. And you're right. If anyone had told me even 5 years ago that I would be paying bills and doing banking online, I'd have said they were crazy. Keep up the good work, dudette.
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