Final Paper Blog

So i'm reading the technopoly book again, and im amazed at how far advanced Postman's views about tech in the future were. In 1992 he was pretty confident that eventually, computers would essentially take over our lives in every aspect of use and activities. I remember when Quicken came out in like 91 or something, the tax software. My dad was super excited to use it, however simply by reading the manual, he couldn't figure out really how to use it. That year he spent a while on Quicken, failed, and had to scramble to do them by hand. Flash forward about 10 years, he's still doing them by hand and it takes him about 100hrs to do all the tax stuff. In 2008, his business and something else (i can't remember) switched to this computer only format whereby making doing his taxes by hand almost impossible. He bought the new quicken, and the Quicken for Dummys book, and within a few weeks, he was able to learn the software. He wasn't fluent in using it, however in 2010, he has become a quicken genius. My point being that had my dad wanted to continue doing our taxes by hand, technology and forces he couldn't control, forced a switch in what he was doing. If he had painstakingly learned how to use quicken back in 91, all the years prior to 2008 would have likely been easier for him to do the taxes, and when he was forced to switch to the program, he wouldn't have had to segregate himself every evening for a few weeks learning how to use the program.