Is life generally more complicated today?

Son_of_Perdition said:
This is actually the first meeting of my future wife. She was 10th (Soph), I was 11th (Junior). She sat across from me, I never had my own type paper. It got to be such a habit of borrowing a blank sheet from her that she just started either putting one on my desk or handing me one when I got that pitiful look on my face. It was 7 years later when we met again, must have had the same pitiful look. Been married 48 years this last Feb.
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Nice story, Son. Congratulations on the 48 years.
 

NancyNGA said:
I sympathize with you fuzzy. One of the most useful courses I took in high school was personal typing (elective, not for business majors). No one recommended it at the time, and I surely didn't have the foresight. It just looked like fun. Don't know if I'd have the discipline to learn typing now. Some of the keyboards now aren't arranged like the old QWERTY ones, I think (?).
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I've never seen ones that aren't arranged in the QWERTY manner. I don't think that would work -- there are just too many people used to the old arrangements.
 

Butterfly said:
When I took typing in the 60s in high school, there were no boys in my class. It wasn't that they weren't allowed to take it, but that it was considered a girls' thing. Nowdays pretty much everybody needs to know how to use a keyboard, and personal secretaries are largely a thing of the past.
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Same here. No boys in my typing class. That did come in handy in college, though, when I made some decent money typing papers for the guys. It was amazing how many of them STILL didn't know how to type. Unfortunately, a lot of them couldn't WRITE, either.
 
Butterfly said:
I've never seen ones that aren't arranged in the QWERTY manner. I don't think that would work -- there are just too many people used to the old arrangements.
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As you could NOT type fast on the old typewriters, the QWERTY keyboard was designed to slow people down. The most-used keys are scattered all over the board. I don't know what the new keyboard was called, but it put the most-used keys in the center of the keyboard, with the purpose of allowing you to type even faster. It didn't catch on, obviously. Old dogs don't like to learn new tricks.
 
I agree, technology has helped to complicate as well as enhance our lives. But I think one of the main issues complicating everything is our growing world population. In 1960 there were roughly 3 billion people, now it has more than doubled to about 7 billion, and growing. All these people are fighting for dwindling resources as we continue to destroy the planet.
 
More complicated today? Only if you don't keep up with technology. The world has gone electronic and it can be very complicated for those who haven't kept up with the basics.
 
helenbacque said:
More complicated today? Only if you don't keep up with technology. The world has gone electronic and it can be very complicated for those who haven't kept up with the basics.
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The point is there are quite a few that cannot keep up. Either they can't afford it or are unable to because their brains are not wired in that mode.
 

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