Are You in Tech Info Overload

Jules

Jules

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Information seems to be coming at me from all directions and I can’t catch up, let alone keep up. I listen to a couple of podcasts and am on an info email list. Sometimes the more I know, the less I know.

Do you feel like you have an adequate or better awareness of all that is happing around us in this technologically driven world.
 

Jules said:
Do you feel like you have an adequate or better awareness of all that is happing around us in this technologically driven world.
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The world has left me behind, however, I don't feel bereft of it. So what if I can't work out how to connect to the internet on my smart phone, it doesn't bother me. Nor can I point the phone at some gizmo to pay for a purchase, or even tap and go a plastic card. As long as the cash in my wallet is accepted, I can get by.
The podcast that you mentioned is not on the "Glossary of Geek Speak, that Age UK have very helpfully listed for an ignoramus like me. I won't show off by letting them know, they might assume that I am computer/internet literate.
 
It is moving too fast for anyone to keep up with most of it. Like an iceberg, there is probably a lot below the surface that the average person isn't even aware of. It is still surprising how broadly some people can sustain an awareness of so much of it though.

Some of it may seem like sheer gibberish to the average person. Others can read or watch videos that at least offer basic overviews good enough to make people comfortable:

 

Jules said:
Information seems to be coming at me from all directions and I can’t catch up, let alone keep up. I listen to a couple of podcasts and am on an info email list. Sometimes the more I know, the less I know.

Do you feel like you have an adequate or better awareness of all that is happing around us in this technologically driven world.
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Definitely yes. I get technically overwhelmed.
I just signed up for 13 courses from Tiny Buddha and accessing them was a challenge.
I’m technically challenged to begin with. I understand what you’re saying.
 
Are you kidding....I'm so far behind...I don't know wtf.
I'm going to have to get the Geek Squad to come over and clean up my desktop computer. It's running slower and I need to update it to Windows 10 or 11.

I know that if I attempt to fix or change something, I invariably end up messing something else up. So, I don't even try.

My phone is easy, as long as I stick to the basics. I did just learn how to video tape and narrate at the same time.
That's been fun. :)
 
I always used the newest technology in my job. However, since I retired, I have been purchasing newer tech such as a laptop, new phone, ipad, apple watch, fire sticks, etc, just so that I can keep up. I try to learn how to use the technology and make sure that I use most of the features of everything.

I tried many years ago to get my Mom to at least use a basic computer, even just to send emails to the grands, or look up recipes. Didn't work, it turned out to be an expensive paperweight, she also could not believe that she had to pay for an internet connection for the joy of this frustrating machine. Same thing with a phone. Years later she had trouble with a smart tv, and even a smart type of thermostat. Without the basics she was lost.

Without at least keeping up with some of this technology, it doesn't take very long to be left in the dust!
 
Jules said:
Information seems to be coming at me from all directions and I can’t catch up, let alone keep up. I listen to a couple of podcasts and am on an info email list. Sometimes the more I know, the less I know.

Do you feel like you have an adequate or better awareness of all that is happing around us in this technologically driven world.
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In short, no. You should start with the value of listening to any given content provider. Everyone is not equal, and not all data has any value. By dumping so called "mainstream media", we have allowed kids in their bedroom to have equal, or more, influence. It's ridiculous. The net encourages us to create echo chambers, and we should reject it. You govern what goes in to your brain. You need to do a better job policing it.
 
I think the world of opinion has exploded, but actual true news has taken a back seat to political bias. We have 24/7 sports TV channels, and I can sum all the talk- we lost- we forgot the "basics", or we won- we kept to the "basics". The biased 24 hour news/opinion channels just all say "those bastards are at it again". There's very little real news anymore. I just can't keep up with the meaningless opinion.
 
There are those bent on swallowing the propaganda and marching lockstep to discourage others from seeking other facts or opinions. But demanding they also force-feed the agenda down their children's throats is appalling.

I guess they personally and politically profit from an easily led population of sheep.
 

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