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But we see everything in different shades. Some things comes naturally to me; they are lost. Sometimes the shoe is on the other foot.<\/p>\nI study digital media. I was born in the early 70′. I am a dinosaur. My fellow students are 15+ years younger than me – born in another era, on a different planet. We learn roughly the same things from opposite directions; we each hold an end of the stick.But we see everything in different shades. Some things comes naturally to me; they are lost. Sometimes the shoe is on the other foot.<\/p>\n
New technology, new gadgets, new software, I need to instantly see a use for it, a purpose. I have no patience with gizmos that have no intrinsic value – a justification for existence, a value unto itself. Things that rests comfortably in their own existence. I would argue the same about art.<\/p>\n
A few weeks back, I was up in the mountains, sans plan, direction, meaning; sans electricity, sans internet \u2013 and it struck me how much easier it would have been, could I look up accommodation, interesting places along the way, approximate time & distances, weather forecasts, trekking routes.
\nI discovered that my phone in fact have navigation. I’ve had it for over a year. I fiddled with it for two minutes, and then lost interest. And bought a map. I couldn’t be bothered. I will go, the weather will be what it will be, the sights surprising or boring, the accommodation, well, worse case, I’ll sleep in a ditch or in the car. Legends and stories do not come from trips that are minutely planned and goes accordingly. Nor surprises.<\/p>\n
Sometimes the technology gets in the way, keeping me away from goals or desired direction. If I got lost in thick fog in the mountains, I would be happy to have a GPS to help me find my way, but if the weather is reasonable, the fiddling with buttons and gadgets would be annoying, invasive. People with their noses constantly stuck in a\u00a0 phone, iPod or GPS annoys me no end. Beside, the worry that you might run out of batteries at some critical point. And you will. Trust me, I have some experience with that.<\/p>\n
My learning curve is to learn technology. For my fellow students, the most educational would be to go without.
\nThey are born with reasonable graphic user interfaces and applied technology, I am more or less born in medieval times. Developing a sense of direction; a feeling for maps. Gadgets comes naturally to them, I use few and discard most.<\/p>\n
And that brings me to the tech stuff that actually works. Being a bookbinder in restoration, you’d be excused to think I would be a complete nazi regarding books. But I have been given an e-book reader, and it is simply brilliant! It works, it travels well. It rests in it’s own existence.
\nI wish I could.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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