I don't know about you, but the computer/ technology stuff you really
need to know for an office job--or for most jobs, for that matter--is
pretty easy to pick up. And will be, as long as there are Visual
Quick-Start Guides and O'Reilly books. Computer books are a booming
industry, the only problem with which is how to recycle the old ones
for previous releases of Quark and Photoshop. The other way you pick
up on technology, software, and the web is that everybody is always
talking about it--talking a LOT about it--both the stuff you need to
know and the stuff you don't. (Remember "All your base are belong to
us", for example?)
As for security: a backup in the Cloud: yeah, I suppose, depending on
what you're storing--I can think of stuff that would raise extreme
security concerns if stored in the Cloud.
The main problem I have with the Cloud and similar phenomena is that
there are only 24 hours in a day. I have a lot of things I need to
do, both on a computer and otherwise, and the time needed to master
the latest bells and whistles takes time away from essential tasks.
I think, Holy Smokes, ANOTHER release of Photoshop? When it's got
more stuff in it now, than any one person even KNOWS about, let alone
uses? And what's this Twitter thing? So, SO boring. I'm not even
interested in what I'M doing every minute of the day, let alone what
anybody else is doing.
There is SO little time in life for writing, which is what I like to
do. So far, the Cloud isn't necessary to do that.
--Constance Warner
On Nov 21, 2009, at 1:55 AM, mike wrote:
A little less of your ego and you might actually consider what I'm
saying.
We, you and I have no idea what technology will be here in a
decade, two
decades, longer..it is presumptuous to assume you are just smarter
than the
previous generations and will just grok it.
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