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Ask Slashdot: Dealing With a Fear of Technological Change?
An anonymous reader writes "Despite the fact that I am fairly young at twenty-four years old, people see me as rather 'old school.' I regularly use Lynx, IRC, Pine, have many consoles open, and am currently typing this on an older plain black laptop that has a matte 4:3 display and no chiclet keys. As the days progress, I am coming to the realization that the 'old school' computing world that I grew up in is slowly fading away and a new world of Windows 8, Web 3.0, tablets, smart televisions, and social networking is starting to become fairly common. If there is anything I have learned, it is that most humans have a desire to throw out the old and accept the new without any sort of hesitation. Like many Slashdot users (I am sure you know who you are), I do not accept the new as easily as I probably should. How have you learned to adapt and accept things that are new and different in the world of technology and computers? If not, what are some effective strategies to utilize to keep these kids off my lawn?"
"If there is anything I have learned, it is that most humans have a desire to throw out the old and accept the new without any sort of hesitation."
When did Slashdot start accepting submissions from Bizarro Earth? Or in Bizzaro Speak, When did orgDotSlash start rejecting admissions from Normal Earth?
"If there is anything I have learned, it is that most humans have a desire to throw out the old and accept the new without any sort of hesitation."
I guess you haven't learned anything, then.
Maybe try again?
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If you don't have a desire to change and accept the inevitable progression of technology switch careers. I hear the amish are making wonderful fireplaces.
Get a bigger 'get off my lawn' sign?
I read TFA and all I got was this lousy cookie
Let me just say, and I think I speak for everyone on Slashdot, change your damn socks already!
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
How have you learned to adapt and accept things that are new and different in the world of technology and computers?
The girls I talk to want the new features. If I want to keep talking to the girls, I stay reasonably current on features.
If you want to, you can replace "girls" with "users", "customers", etc. Really, though, this is nothing new, since about Windows 95 and AOL.
you tell them! i am on a pdp-11 terminal and i have to run my data stream trough a translation code that puts everything into lower case so that slashdot's filter doesn't tel me that im yelling or somethng- so iguess i'm whispering now? i have 12k of ram and a hole kilobyte of disk space. my factorite game is star trek in basic. I don't have any spiel chk ither. my power bill is about $1,000/ mo for the computer and ac. sometimes - aside from marketing hybole - technology imporovments are a good thing, sonny.
I am so much cooler than you. I am currently typing this email by manually creating punch cards which are hooked to a morse code machine which then relays the electrical signals into a decoder I built from weet-bix and leeches and straight into the copper cables which connect my phone.
I've got socks older than you. What are you gonna do when you really get old?
Considering how fast new things come (and go) in this field, anyone with more than five years of industry experience can claim to be "old". Anyway... Can I just say -- you need to update your wardrobe if you have 24 year old socks. My car isn't even that old, and it's falling apart; If I kept socks for that long, they'd be like... sock molecules, held together only by determination and a fierce desire to not be trendy.
#fuckbeta #iamslashdot #dicemustdie
I'd vote for getting a new pair of socks.
Science advances one funeral at a time- Max Planck
It feels SO awkward to observe geeks flirting with each other like this.
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