How Are You Doing with Technology?
Technology. In the 1960s technology would mean a telephone with a cord connected to the wall, a color television, a toaster, a radio, record player and electricity in every room. That was suburban life. As a child, I would play outside all day and ate only two maybe three meals a day with a rare treat every now and then. Living near Edwards Air Force Base, I also had the added attraction of people flying in airplanes t break the sound barrier resulting in sonic booms shaking windows violently. My father was a jet propulsion lab engineer. He would sometimes take my older sister, Dawn and me to where he worked at Edwards Air Force Base. It is there that we saw our first computers. We saw huge reels of film resembling old movie machines taking up entire walls in a room. Today, we have in our hand technology more complex than the rockets designed to land a man on the moon in 1969. Mobile phones are our phones, entertainment, encyclopedia, yellow and white pages, and to som...