Not long ago, I got to thinking about how much technology has changed in my lifetime. No, I’m not old enough to have used a slide rule—but I do remember seeing one in my father’s desk when I was a kid, and I distinctly remember him getting his first calculator.
Of course, things kept changing as I got older. There was the Commodore PET in our 6th-grade classroom, then the Commodore 64 in our home and the Apple IIe’s in our high school. In college, it was the Macintosh Plus, and the PC’s in the lab; if you wanted to run WordPerfect on one of the machines, you had to check out the floppy disk from the consultant at the desk and load it into memory first. Cumbersome though that may sound, moving from the typewriter to the computer in college really changed how I worked; it certainly made keeping track of my writing a lot simpler.
To read the full, original article click on this link: How Has the Way You Work Changed in the Last Ten Years? - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Author: Amy Cavender
