{"id":408,"date":"2010-12-17T15:15:42","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T06:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/tajohnson\/?p=408"},"modified":"2010-12-18T12:15:22","modified_gmt":"2010-12-18T03:15:22","slug":"technological-retardery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/tajohnson\/2010\/12\/17\/technological-retardery\/","title":{"rendered":"Technological Retardery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fifteen years ago, anyone past 40 who did email was considered pretty cool. Now it seems to be the lower end of normal. A recent <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/12\/teachparentstechorg-keeping-tech.html\">Google blog<\/a> featured online teaching videos as gifts from young people to their parents to lighten the tech burden of helping their parents get up to speed.<\/p>\n<p>I marvel at my own disinterest in trying to figure out how to do all the tricky things that are possible with a decent computer these days. My kids shake their heads in disbelief that with so much available at my fingertips I\u2019d rather do what\u2019s safe and known, even if it takes three times as long and looks thirty times worse. The phrase\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/remarkablogger.com\/2010\/12\/15\/best-practices-vs-originality-when-lead-when-follow\/\">self-proclaimed technological retardery<\/a> fits me.<\/p>\n<p>But why? My standard response is that I\u2019m too busy or maybe too lazy. Sometimes I blame the lack of dimensionality &#8211; after all, I came of age long before ubiquitous net access did. When I was forming my views of reality, the world was 3D. Two-dimensional representations like drawings or photos made sense only because they derived their existence from a 3D world. Even spiritual realities seemed to have more than two dimensions. After all, if God made the world this beautifully textured, colored, and rich in sound, taste, and scent, how could the spiritual world be any less? Surely it had to be 4D or more.<\/p>\n<p>But on my computer, everything is flat &#8211; there is little dimensionality. I\u2019m not fooled. Moving my cursor over a category in order to fan it out and see what is \u201cunder\u201d it might be a slight improvement over lists, but I long for the weight and solid feel of my piles of papers and books. When looking for a document in a real pile, my kinesthetic memory supplies all sorts of cues to help me find it. Was it a pile on the floor? Was it up high? Did I have to reach around something when I put it down? What was I doing before I put it down? What did I do after I put it down? Was the paper slick or rough? Wrinkled or flat? Yellow or beige? My body remembers this, and prompts my mind even when I forget to put the item in a file with a clear label, which is most of the time.<\/p>\n<p>My kinesthetic memory can\u2019t help me so much with my computer.\u00a0 If something is not filed in a consistent manner with the date and title always written in the same way and saved in the same place, I might never find it again even using some pretty powerful search functions.\u00a0 The skills needed to maximize my computer are ones I\u2019d rather not develop at this time in my life. It\u2019s a lot easier to just do things as I\u2019ve always done them, which is why I\u2019ve got to face the music and realize that at heart it is laziness &#8211; not just laziness in the sense of time and energy investment, but laziness in that <strong><em>I <\/em><\/strong>would have to change in order to interface with my computer more effectively. On some deep level I don\u2019t want to do that. I don\u2019t want to discipline myself to label documents in the same way every time. After all, it\u2019s my computer, so why should I have to do it differently than I always have?\u00a0 I also don\u2019t like being a newbie, having to try and fail many times as I work with a new application. It hurts my ego and slows me down from doing what I want to do.\u00a0 Can you relate? And does this only happen with technology? I\u2019m beginning to wonder if these aren\u2019t the same reasons a lot of people shy away from new experiences, ideas, and relationships as they get older. It\u2019s just a lot easier not to have to change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/tajohnson?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=408&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifteen years ago, anyone past 40 who did email was considered pretty cool. 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