Oh, don't be so luddi-crous!
Saturday, July 07, 2007
For centuries I have been using an abacus to work with numbers. One day, a glib talking salesman convinced me to buy a device called a calculator (took me a while to learn how to pronounce the word). Apparently this tiny thingamajig fits into your palm and does the work of one thousand abacuses in one thousandth of the time.
I was impressed and for the next few centuries I did my number crunching on the calculator. And then, on one fine day, the salesman dropped in again. He lugged along a bigger device. "A computer", he called it and spouted a few figures that sounded mighty impressive. One million times faster and more accurate.
"Okay, so show me how to add my numbers on this computeron", I said.
"Computer, sir. Not computeron. And, you can do your math on this nifty li'l program here called calculator.exe. Let me open it for you.."
"Now why would I spend so much to buy something that does the same thing my calculator does?", I replied.
And the salesman and his computeron vanished in a cloud of redundancy.
Coming up next : Why I don't use mobile phones.
The Loony Luddite.
posted by foogarky @ 1:48 PM,
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