I wrote my first computer program in 1966 and have been involved with technology ever since. I had my first cell phone in 1986 which was also the first year I sent an email (from my house, no less). With credentials like that, you would think that I use the latest and greatest in technology everywhere.
I am only so willing to accept so much technology. I don’t have an Alexa – I do not want a device spying on me at home.
It’s impossible to get along without a personal phone today, so I have one of them and I use many of its features. I do not have my nose buried in it every minute. It is primarily a communication device for me.
I do have smart TV’s since it’s not possible to buy anything else. I do use streaming services only because I got unbelievably good deals on annual subscriptions. Even those that have ads cut out about 15 minutes of ads an hour.
Before the internet (well, social media}, we turned on network news to gain information. Now, we click on selected “news” sites to confirm our already held opinions. We all lose.
rekam Premium Member 8 months ago
Wow, they already had glasses and books.
Mediatech 8 months ago
Plenty of information on the internet. Some of it might even qualify as facts, but little of it can be called truth.
Imagine 8 months ago
Information is not the same thing as knowledge. And certainly not wisdom
Gent 8 months ago
Me never knews there was internet in B.C.
Count Olaf Premium Member 8 months ago
Or widespread Disinformation Dissemination? Hmmmm…?
markkahler52 8 months ago
Then, AI came in an took right over….
MacGuyver 8 months ago
Not to be confused with Alpaca lipstick.
dcdete. 8 months ago
Wow that Dr. Thor is a really smart guy, considering just yesterday he was too dumb to wait and let the glue dry on his wing flying feathers!
dflak 8 months ago
I wrote my first computer program in 1966 and have been involved with technology ever since. I had my first cell phone in 1986 which was also the first year I sent an email (from my house, no less). With credentials like that, you would think that I use the latest and greatest in technology everywhere.
I am only so willing to accept so much technology. I don’t have an Alexa – I do not want a device spying on me at home.
It’s impossible to get along without a personal phone today, so I have one of them and I use many of its features. I do not have my nose buried in it every minute. It is primarily a communication device for me.
I do have smart TV’s since it’s not possible to buy anything else. I do use streaming services only because I got unbelievably good deals on annual subscriptions. Even those that have ads cut out about 15 minutes of ads an hour.
More Coffee Please! Premium Member 8 months ago
Before the internet (well, social media}, we turned on network news to gain information. Now, we click on selected “news” sites to confirm our already held opinions. We all lose.
rockyridge1977 8 months ago
Go figure??
kathleenhicks62 8 months ago
What are they talking about?
zeexenon 8 months ago
Trouble is, it comes unedited and highly abridged.
bilbrlsn 8 months ago
No there isn’t.
oish 8 months ago
WoW – Abraham Lincoln said and did so many things AND hunted vampires!
waes-hael 8 months ago
I’d say more like “social Media hit smart phones”
BobA57 8 months ago
Now it’s more like the semination of disinformation
Kirk Barnes Premium Member 8 months ago
Now they’re too busy inseminating information…
Silence Dogood Premium Member 8 months ago
Cheap shot, B.C., yet another…
John M 8 months ago
I’ve been online for around 30 years, I’d suggest the disinformation really started with the likes of Facebook becoming big
Ivan the Terrible 8 months ago
Neanderthals no doubt. Very creative white folks.
eddi-TBH 8 months ago
All the facts are still in there somewhere. Buried under geological strata of dreck.
David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace 8 months ago
Information and disinformation.