My internet connection crashed yesterday afternoon, and I felt
molested to the upmost degree about that. My partner and I were in the middle
of what is to us doing important work---building a website to market art
resources and supplies at Art Easels for the Artist. By the way I ask readers to do us a favor and check out our website and leave a comment---this will encourage the traffic that leads to higher ranking in the search engines.
My partner Osnelly and I at Mall del Rio in Cuenca, Ecuador |
Anyway, it´s late morning now and my web connection is still down, but a trusted and experienced internet systems engineer at [email protected] is going to come over at 3 pm to re-establish the connection. I am fully confident he will succeed.
Who would argue this advancement is not to our advantage?
But I have a point to make that´s an offshoot angle or perspective about this. I myself did not grow up with the internet, computers and cellphones around in daily life. As a result their technology is always going to be somewhat foreign to me regardless of how many courses or studies of computers I may take. It´s like language. If someone´s native tongue is English he or she will never quite be able to speak an acquired, second language learned in adulthood with the same fluency as English.
The second language never gets ingrained like the
mother tongue did. So it is with computer fluency for those who grew up before
computers were part and parcel of daily life. They will never be as comfortable
with the technology as are their sons and daughters, not to mention their
grandchildren.
Something about it is a fascination to me. The
internet has changed people´s capabilities---young people adapting to the world
the way it is and becoming capable of guiding earth into a future which we
would never have had absent the expansion of computer and internet expertise. I live in what some term a third world country---Ecuador. But yesterday I noticed an Ecuadorian boy about five years old playing a digital game on his hand phone. He was moving his fingers around that keypad with ease---born of skill developed at a tender age. Be that as it may about Ecuador, it makes little difference. That boy will be painting the internet of the future with colors native to Ecuador.