Once there was a time that I could write up a 300 odd words of decent prose in no time all. Without spell checkers. And grammar checkers. Or auto completion. Or a google search.
Or a keyboard dammit!
Ah me those were the days!
Now I have reached a point that when I start using an actual pen to actually 'write' my fingers feel weird. And when I make a mistake, instead of cheerfully cutting it off and getting on with it, my brain starts screaming CTRL+Z! CTRL+Z!
As if thats not silly enough, just the other day I was adding a new method to this class , REPEAT a NEW method, and I just typed the first few letters and pressed CTRL+SPACE..waiting for Eclipse to do its auto completion for something that was inside my brain.
Oh the horror of it!..
I wonder if all programmers fall to this sorry state...If all computer users for that matter.
Well it stands to reason doesnt it? If you have this wonderful slave who will take care of how to spell 'sacrilegious' and will find out for you what exactly 'obfuscation' means why should you trouble yourself? I mean wheres the logic in that? Just think of all the stuff you could do in that time.
Like, you know post sarcastic and witty comments to your friends photos on FB.
or forward this email that threatens you with ever lasting bad luck if you dont hit forward within 5 seconds.
Or pondering on your reincarnation.
What has happened to my math skills I will not even discuss.
Hmm perhaps this is how computers will take over us. Not on Judgment day with T-1000 s marching on, but with this slow lazy deterioration of our brains...
Or a keyboard dammit!
Ah me those were the days!
Now I have reached a point that when I start using an actual pen to actually 'write' my fingers feel weird. And when I make a mistake, instead of cheerfully cutting it off and getting on with it, my brain starts screaming CTRL+Z! CTRL+Z!
As if thats not silly enough, just the other day I was adding a new method to this class , REPEAT a NEW method, and I just typed the first few letters and pressed CTRL+SPACE..waiting for Eclipse to do its auto completion for something that was inside my brain.
Oh the horror of it!..
I wonder if all programmers fall to this sorry state...If all computer users for that matter.
Well it stands to reason doesnt it? If you have this wonderful slave who will take care of how to spell 'sacrilegious' and will find out for you what exactly 'obfuscation' means why should you trouble yourself? I mean wheres the logic in that? Just think of all the stuff you could do in that time.
Like, you know post sarcastic and witty comments to your friends photos on FB.
or forward this email that threatens you with ever lasting bad luck if you dont hit forward within 5 seconds.
Or pondering on your reincarnation.
What has happened to my math skills I will not even discuss.
Hmm perhaps this is how computers will take over us. Not on Judgment day with T-1000 s marching on, but with this slow lazy deterioration of our brains...
How very true. I feel it's not limited to programmers. I pondered over the very same thing a while back when I circumstance forced me to use ol' fashion paper and paper and found my self struggling to write a decent para.
ReplyDeleteTrue on the math skills too... I'm a tad (nay very much!) ashamed to say that I've caught my self using the calculator to add single digit numbers!
hehe..very true indeed!! i guess thats hw u bcome a slave to the system..hehe..slow lazy decay..:)
ReplyDeleteentrpy : calculators..*sigh..now I know why my math teachers were dead against them at school.
ReplyDeleterealskullzero : yes we make the slaves and then get enslaved ourselves to those very slaves..
That's true. It's the same with the calculator. People who are in their 50's or even older like most of my math teachers were could do so much stuff in their heads.
ReplyDeleteThe rest of us are like... ar...er... where is my calculator!
foxhound: sometimes i wonder if its just that we cant add numbers or if we're just plain lazy. We could probably do it if we absolutely HAD to..or could we?
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