[ale] Sigh. Another Old White Guy hates and fears computers

[Jim Kinney]

Heh, heh. DIY = sticking it to the Man.
On Feb 23, 2016 9:52 AM, "Charles Shapiro" <hooterpincher at gmail.com> wrote:

> What ticks me off about this is the general cluelessness.  It bugs me when
> people assume that because digital creativity, elegance, and beauty look a
> little different they are somehow less valid.  Unix is now over 40 years
> old, and many of us still use the original tools created by Brian
> Kernighan, Dennis Ritchie, Alfred Aho, and countless others. Those tools
> are still working on the very latest and spiffiest smartphones. If Mr.
> Cohen can't be bothered to dig into the stuff he uses every day, that's a
> failing on his part.
>
> I'm not necessarily a techno-utopian, but YouTube now means that even some
> kid working with his friends in his divorced dad's basement can make a hit
> TV show. Heck, sites like vine.co and imgur.com mean that it might need
> to be only a few seconds long. Twitter means that even a shut-in
> Palestinian woman might-could have access to millions of readers. The time
> when you need to pass some editor's or TV executive's whim in order to
> reach an audience is past. Roger Cohen might think that's bad, but I'm
> excited about it.
>
> -- CHS
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 9:23 AM, James Taylor <
> James.Taylor at eastcobbgroup.com> wrote:
>
>> After having spent over 30 years working with them, I think I qualify as
>> an old white guy that hates and fears computers....
>> -jt
>>
>>
>>
>> James Taylor
>> 678-697-9420
>> james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com
>>
>>
>>
>> >>> Charles Shapiro <hooterpincher at gmail.com> 2/23/2016 9:19 AM >>>
>> Op-ed in this morning's NYT. (
>>
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/23/opinion/smartphone-era-politics.html?rref=collection%2Fcolumn%2Froger-cohen
>> ).
>>
>> *  Computers are just fancy TV sets.
>> *  The internet is corroding my privileged position as a Prize Pundit
>> *   I can't learn anything new 'cause I'm Sad and Old
>> *   You kids get off my lawn.
>>
>> I sincerely hope that as my generation retires and dies off, the next one
>> will become more sensible about this stuff.  Just maybe, they could change
>> their world for the better.
>>
>> -- CHS
>>
>>
>>
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