don’t worry, click happy
10 February, 2009 at 10:27 pm 2 comments
My Dad has techno-distrust issues. He disagrees on principle with having to click ‘start’ when you want to switch a PC off and can’t understand why Windows crashes more often than your average demolition derby. So when he asked to borrow my SatNav I knew that a refresher session on how to use it was going to be challenging.
First the battery died on us, then the system couldn’t get a signal because a wall was in the way and finally my Dad got a bit overenthusiastic with the touch screen and it tried to send him to a viewing facility in St Albans. Understandably, he found this a bit frustrating.
But my view has always been that if you approach technology with a degree of pessimism, expecting it to malfunction at some point in the not too distant future, then in the unlikely event of everything functioning normally you get a nice surprise…
Entry filed under: technology. Tags: computers, distrust, frustration, technology.
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