technolo G
you know i'm not the most technology savvy person around. basic maneuvering of the computer aka endless surfing of the internet that's about it. 3G is beyond me i just know it's like video conferencing and you have to pay for it on top of your basic phone bill subscription. years before there were the mini discs which very much surpassed compact discs because of their miniature sizes. but the whole phase passed even before i could get myself one and start learning how to use it. and now we're fast forwarded into an era of ipods and mp4s....
i've been spotting people on the trains playing their nintendo ds lite or psp something which totally eludes me btw. my dear brother has got a champagne psp *very chio* and i tried miserably to play on it even though i had no idea which button makes the 'game character' move forward o_O kinda sad huh? but the thing is with technology it's a learning process which never stops yet is never too difficult to pick up. well at least for the younger generation nowadays. that's probably because all gadgets are designed to be user-friendly with instructions manual and all. and their major selling point idiot-proofy so that it can reach a wider consumer base. the least you could do is reject such advancement and not let yourself be caught up in a mad mad world.
this reminds me of angie who absolutely doesn't bother about mundane matters as the above. she used to own a samsung clamshell phone which she claimed had such low memory she had to keep deleting the pictures and messages in order to save new ones. this i reckon is pretty true since i had the former unpleasant experience myself the 'what-nots' from the same brand. that is until i accompanied the poor girl to trade-in her phone for a brand new nokia one. thereafter the sales girl informed her that she had alot of dark/black pictures stored in memory. apparently the self portrait mode of the phone allows users to take pictures when it is closed hence the button is easily activated thereby taking unnecessary pictures unknowingly. the hilarious part is that she knows about the black pictures but deleted her pictures instead of the black ones because well she thought it's supposed to be there. i rest my case.
this reminds me of angie who absolutely doesn't bother about mundane matters as the above. she used to own a samsung clamshell phone which she claimed had such low memory she had to keep deleting the pictures and messages in order to save new ones. this i reckon is pretty true since i had the former unpleasant experience myself the 'what-nots' from the same brand. that is until i accompanied the poor girl to trade-in her phone for a brand new nokia one. thereafter the sales girl informed her that she had alot of dark/black pictures stored in memory. apparently the self portrait mode of the phone allows users to take pictures when it is closed hence the button is easily activated thereby taking unnecessary pictures unknowingly. the hilarious part is that she knows about the black pictures but deleted her pictures instead of the black ones because well she thought it's supposed to be there. i rest my case.
on the other hand it is understandable for my parents having survived stone-age to be the ones having difficulties comprehending simple technological lingo. yes sad to say they do have trouble using a mobile phone. gah! how difficult is that? let me just explain to you that to them a mobile phone is a free object that comes along with a plan. so why not get it? but having said that they rarely carry it out unless i force them to as i wanted them to remain contactable at times. duh. which is the whole purpose of a mobile phone. my dad would have left his nokia phone in its crisp new packaging thinking it would increase in value being an antique if i hadn't ripped open it. anyway during my recent overseas trips i've managed to teach them how to dial out and receive calls. same as cordless phone wat. but messaging. phew sms is a totally new world for them especially having to spell out english words using alphanumeric buttons! eh they are chinese educated one hor? so in that sense technology to them stopped at the wonders of tv and video tapes which they could record and watch their favourite soap opera.
sometimes i'm not sure if they know what i mean by online. recently i told them one of my ex-student msn me to say that he is in hk too. 'do you still contact him?' 'not really we can see each other online' 'how does he know you're in hk?' 'well he saw eh my alias/nick' 'oh??' 'aiyah he talked to me over the internet la' i can somehow imagine an imagery flashing across my mom's mind of me dialling a long distance call to him via the computer =] because that's how they used to ask me to communicate to my brother in oz. 'eh you use the computer/internet to msg your brother' till now i'm not sure they understand exactly what and how internet works but they definitely know it exists because it comes up in the monthly bills! haha
hmmm i wonder if i'll turn into an old fogey next time. how much more can i learn? how much more will i be bothered by such fast paced changes? will it be a reversal of role once i grow old to be exasperated by the trends of time? life on earth is too fast for me beam me up scotty *_*
hmmm i wonder if i'll turn into an old fogey next time. how much more can i learn? how much more will i be bothered by such fast paced changes? will it be a reversal of role once i grow old to be exasperated by the trends of time? life on earth is too fast for me beam me up scotty *_*
posted by novie @ 12:57 PM
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