Adding the heck, no! in techno: Is technology moving too fast?
Let’s go back in time: I am in 5 th grade; I have just changed schools – cities, in fact. My class enters the computer room for our weekly lesson on PowerPoint. Each student picks a computer from the three rows of computer stations. I choose one next to my friend. I look around and notice that everyone is switching their computers on. I’m nervous; I don’t know which button is the power-on one. I look at my friend pressing the largest round button on her CPU, and it turns green. I immediately press the largest button on my CPU, afraid that I might miss something if I don’t follow her step-for-step. She then presses the square button on the monitor and I follow her lead. Hers switches on, with that quintessential 2006 Windows ding . I look at my screen. My screen is white with two thin-lined rectangles on it. This is my second earliest memory of having a panic attack. I know if I can't get the computer to start in time, nobody is going to wait for me. The teacher will start th