Saturday, June 16, 2012

Danni’s Doorstep: On/Off

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Being a child of the 90’s, I grew up with minimal “technology” in my earlier years. Phones had cords, Super Nintendo was new, Beanie Babies and boy bands were the only things worth caring about.

As I grew up and advances in technology were made, I just like many in my generation, learned to adapt. It appears as though we were the only ones alive in the 90’s that thought to adapt.

There have been so many times when I’ve had to explain if the iPod is charging, why the extension cord isn’t powering anything and why the attachable keyboard for the iPad isn’t working. It amazes me that in 80% of these situations the solution isn’t that we need to refigure the data chip to ensure that everything is properly syncing or to preform a complete scan for all malicious files, but that it’s simply…Did you try turning it on?

I was talking to a co-worker who used to work in the IT department and she said it was amazing as to how many times turning the computer off and on again solved the problem. It’s almost as if today, the roles have reversed. Children have all of the answers and the adults are the befuddled toddlers.

A word of advice to any “technologically illiterate” person from a great British TV show called the IT crowd.


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…Do you smell what I’m steppin’ in?

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