Sunday, November 29, 2015

High tech, low tech, no tech

I spent much of this evening addressing envelopes, by hand, to mail our my Christmas poem by snail mail.  All very low tech by today's standards and yet 50 years ago a ball point pen was considered very forward thinking.  I searched for addresses in my address book and other paper directories, no tech, and on my phone, high tech by my standards, and even went back to my good old Sharp Wizard to find names and addresses still stored there.  I think I got my Wizard about 15 years ago as a Christmas bonus at work. Everyone in management got one and they were seen as cutting edge.  Not only could you enter data like names, addresses and phone numbers of your clients in this nifty little hand held devise, you could also keep your calendar, notes from meetings, expenses, and even check the time.  For some reason mine is showing the time in Norfolk, VA and Chicago right now and also a date of September 22, 2003. Obviously I didn't use that app much. I guess it was just quicker to look at my watch.  Of course the wonderful Wizard didn't make phone calls, send texts, access apps and games or other internet sources or allow you to check your email. So my little old Wizard has been relegated to the land of low tech which is probably why I'm still using it.

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