Imagine being stuck on a deserted island and what if you could only have a few items? Most likely you would want to have your mobile phone, a laptop with an Internet connection and a television set would be great too. Some people swear they will be lost without them. In future the reality TV series Survivor would be where contestants compete to outlast after discarding their mobile phones!
Have we really become slaves to technology? It is like a situation where we incessantly crack insulting jokes about Microsoft like maybe we should have a hot-key for Ctrl-Alt-Del but at the end of the day almost everyone uses Windows Operating System. We love to hate it but cannot seem to do without it.
I admit that sometimes I get frustrated with filling long online forms, receiving spam e-mail, computer hanging in the midst of doing something, losing data, having low phone battery when I need to make a call... yet I don't think I can readily give IT all up, simply because work or play depends on IT. You will know when I get too into IT when I try double-clicking to open my bedroom window, my family name is my Domain Name and my residential address is called URL.
Maybe one day computers will just become way too advanced for us. Warning message: "User Error: Replace User."
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My favourite thing is to finish a task, and automatically want to go 'ctrl+s'.
I've changed the desktop on my computer and wanted to 'ctrl+s' it.
I've changed pictures on my mobile, and automatically had the urge to 'ctrl+s' it.
Sometimes when I'm writing in my notebooks or copying down notes for my thesis, after i finish, I have the urge to 'ctrl+s' it, just in case it disappears.
If only i could 'ctrl+s' this moment...
Have we really become too reliant on IT?
Here's a poem I came across, checked with Spell Checker, of course! =P
Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.
Good grief, Zan. That poem was such a hard read....
Having said that, i still stick by my ctrl+s comment. and i really *really* would like to just put everything on pause right now, coz i want to nap - but deadlines wait for noone =( .. unless of course we can create some technology that deadlines *will* wait for..
whaddya think? we can split the profits... 70/30 my way, (since i thought of the idea) .. but hey, least i'm sharing ;)
i'll gladly give you a share 50/50 if i can really device something like that... because sometimes i too wish life would slow down a little. Meanwhile i am testing to see if my TV remote can do the job, but alas... =P
The poem is indeed difficult to read so i decided to put up this version checked by a human instead, ha!
I have a spelling checker
It came with my PC
It plainly marks for my review
Mistakes I cannot see.
I strike a key and type a word
And wait for it to say
Whether I am wrong or right
It shows me straight away.
As soon as a mistake is made
It knows before too long
And I can put the error right
It's rarely ever wrong.
I have run this poem through it
I am sure you're pleased to know
It's letter perfect all the way
My checker told me so.
50/50???
b-b-b-ut i brought it up first!!! c'mon, 60/40.
yeh, the tv remote only works on the tv, alas. unless we can convince the great powers thast be, that "life is like television reception. you never know what you're going to get" ...
How about a back-space in life? Reverse all those wrong decisions one has made?
Hahaha... ok then 60/40.. i'll give you credit for the idea... ;)
Hmm... Backspace would definitely be useful as well.
i am now attempting to plug my keyboard into myself... but i can't seem to find my USB port... =P
awwright!! Here's the contract. Sign here, here, and here. and we'll also need a blood and urine sample, not to mention a list of all your assets. Don't want you running away now should it all go bust ;)
Re the usb port. Silly! Didn't you watch the matrix?? the port's at the back of your head!!!! I have a theory about rewinding past mistakes. But i won't go into it here. I'd probably burn up the comment box knowing how much i can go on, and on, and on... Suffice to say, if we prolong/pause time, everything is fixable ;) Even if we have to go to extreme measures... bribery always works in the end.
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