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 10 months ago
Wow, they already had glasses and books.
Mediatech 10 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 10 months ago
Information is not the same thing as knowledge. And certainly not wisdom
Gent 10 months ago
Me never knews there was internet in B.C.
Count Olaf Premium Member 10 months ago
Or widespread Disinformation Dissemination? Hmmmm…?
markkahler52 10 months ago
Then, AI came in an took right over….
MacGuyver 10 months ago
Not to be confused with Alpaca lipstick.
dcdete. 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 months ago
Go figure??
kathleenhicks62 10 months ago
What are they talking about?
zeexenon 10 months ago
Trouble is, it comes unedited and highly abridged.
bilbrlsn 10 months ago
No there isn’t.
oish 10 months ago
WoW – Abraham Lincoln said and did so many things AND hunted vampires!
waes-hael 10 months ago
I’d say more like “social Media hit smart phones”
BobA57 10 months ago
Now it’s more like the semination of disinformation
Kirk Barnes Premium Member 10 months ago
Now they’re too busy inseminating information…
Silence Dogood Premium Member 10 months ago
Cheap shot, B.C., yet another…
John M 10 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 10 months ago
Neanderthals no doubt. Very creative white folks.
eddi-TBH 10 months ago
All the facts are still in there somewhere. Buried under geological strata of dreck.
David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace 10 months ago
Information and disinformation.