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TheCatWoman

     I have huge problems with tech, I almost gave up joining here as I kept running into problems about codes and passwords. I can use basic email and just about cope with some shopping, like the big forresty place, but some I find overwhelming. I don't know how to use a smart phone I can just about cope with a stupid one, but not well. Everyone seems to think that everyone else is comfortable with tech and that 'it's intuitive', who's intuition are they using? I can't seem to find any help and everyone seems to think more tech is the answer. I'm starting to get very excluded from the world as everything moves towards smart phones, mobile banking, do they really want me to crash the worlds entire banking system? That's the other thing with tech, I go near it, it goes wrong, the list of things I've crashed gets ever longer, sometimes I only have to stand next to something for it to stop working. I'm so fed up with stupid answers when I try and explain my problems, from people talking loudly and slowly to me, (my response was I'm autistic not deaf or stupid), or laughing, getting angry, trying to start me off at a place well above my understanding, like 'you have to decide if you want Apple or Android?' Most often they just sort of drift away, before I sprout a second head or something. One of my learning difficulties is that some bits of information go straight to long term memory storage without ever passing through short term memory storage, I'm told that without spending time in short term storage, I have no synaptic links created, so I can't retrieve information. For example I know I've done C&P dozens of times, but I can't remember how to do it, everytime is like the first, of course it dosen't help when I lose stuff, like an essay or something. Tech causes me more meltdowns than almost anything else

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  • I think you can summit up by saying that technology was designed to make our lives easier not simpler.

    driving a car it’s complicated you have to learn to coordinate the steering wheel pedals the indicator to pay attention to the mirrors you need to learn the gears. Your brain has to multitask your body checking a lot of different things and making a lot of different decisions and manipulating a lot of different controls all at the same time. It’s far more complicated than walking which only requires you to coordinate your centre of mass and your legs and not bump into things.

    however driving from John O’Groats to lands end is a hell of a lot easier than walking from John O’Groats to lands end. Technology makes our lives easier but the price is we have to become more complicated.

    I am young enough to have a grown-up with computers. I had exposure to the BBC micro / commodore  before my teens and basic programming. I spent my teens using computers with GUIs like the McIntosh. It’s really wrong to think about a smart phone as a phone. It’s a touchscreen personal computer that’s had a phone added. If you already knew how to operate a desktop computer it’s not that big a leap. If you already knew how to operate an old-fashioned dos or Other text based computer using a modern PC isn’t that big a jump Either.

    Computer literacy is as important as English literacy, it’s also sometimes for some people almost as hard as learning a new language. I would approach using your smart phone as being like learning a new language. You don’t expect to just pick it up as an adult you need to immerse yourself in it and be shown by people who know what they’re doing.

    The plus side is there is a lot of overlap between these different computer systems. if you learn how to use one you have drastically reduced the effort you need to put in to learn another.

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  • I think you can summit up by saying that technology was designed to make our lives easier not simpler.

    driving a car it’s complicated you have to learn to coordinate the steering wheel pedals the indicator to pay attention to the mirrors you need to learn the gears. Your brain has to multitask your body checking a lot of different things and making a lot of different decisions and manipulating a lot of different controls all at the same time. It’s far more complicated than walking which only requires you to coordinate your centre of mass and your legs and not bump into things.

    however driving from John O’Groats to lands end is a hell of a lot easier than walking from John O’Groats to lands end. Technology makes our lives easier but the price is we have to become more complicated.

    I am young enough to have a grown-up with computers. I had exposure to the BBC micro / commodore  before my teens and basic programming. I spent my teens using computers with GUIs like the McIntosh. It’s really wrong to think about a smart phone as a phone. It’s a touchscreen personal computer that’s had a phone added. If you already knew how to operate a desktop computer it’s not that big a leap. If you already knew how to operate an old-fashioned dos or Other text based computer using a modern PC isn’t that big a jump Either.

    Computer literacy is as important as English literacy, it’s also sometimes for some people almost as hard as learning a new language. I would approach using your smart phone as being like learning a new language. You don’t expect to just pick it up as an adult you need to immerse yourself in it and be shown by people who know what they’re doing.

    The plus side is there is a lot of overlap between these different computer systems. if you learn how to use one you have drastically reduced the effort you need to put in to learn another.

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