Blogger’s Note: SOMT stands for Sign Of My Times, an occasional blog sharing my thoughts how time changes life from when I was young to today.
Murphy's Law: If anything can go wrong, it will. My life is dependent on the computer. The common examples are email, Excel, social networking, and job searching. We live in the information technology. Information is a few clicks away on the internet: trivia, history, learning how-to, research, education, and entertainment.
My life is on pause when my laptop or desktop goes down. My computer broke on Dec 27, 2014. My failure analysis concluded the motherboard was at fault. Fortunately, my laptop worked which provided limited uses when I needed a computer. My priority outside work was upgrading my desktop Jan-Mar 2015. The research, advice from my family and friends, and shopping around occupied lots of my free time. I wanted the upgrade to go smoothly. I wanted to buy new hardware at the lowest price possible.
Likewise when my smart phone stopped working. People with smart phones are connected 24/7. Currently, I'm job searching. It's difficult to find a job when the only communication between the job prospect and me is email. My number one out of many reasons I own a smart phone is communication during an emergency. If my smart phone stopped working, my life is paused. I devote all my time replacing my smart phone immediately.
I was a child during my life without a computer. My dad brought home an outdated HP computer from work. It was the family's first computer. I used the computer to play baseball and to write. I never programmed. I never learned anything more about computers. I don't know how to live life without a computer. I don't know how adults lived without computers and without cell phones in the past. My adulthood is dependent on computers and cell phones.
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