It's that computer thing again...

Oh my, it seems like yesterday, my computer was an IBM golf ball, typewriter!
When first introduced to that amazing machine, I wondered when the struggle to understand how to change the 'golf balls' would happen…It wasn't long - but eventually I mastered the technique. It was also wonderful not having to rewind and replace ribbon, the fabulous 'cartridge' ribbon was in place. Clunk click it was in and out.
Now, there are no ribbons, no golf balls, unless they're on the course, instead we have computers.
Oh, not computers that fill a whole room - yes, I remember them, they were incredibly powered binary legends. So wonderful were they, that mere PA's like me, were not allowed to touch.
We could fax, or better still use the old method of telexing. I can see you smile, remembering that one! I can also see others scratching their head saying "What the hell's a telex"?
Now we can fax from our telephones - what is the point of that?
It wasn't that long ago that I was explaining to my Dad what a fax machine was, he couldn't get to terms with this new invention. "Well, you see dad, what it does is basically photograph your work and send it down the telephone wire." Note.. telephone WIRE.
We wrote letters, not emails.
I used to love getting letters, now the only letters I get seem to come from the bank and I hate getting them!
It sounds as if the past is where we should live, or it sounds as if I want to live there but I don't.
Technology has advanced so much and with it comes the good and the bad. The bad for me, is the lack of letters. Some say the bad would be social media, the lack of human touch and conversation. I have to disagree there.
Social media can be a very positive thing, interaction for some is very difficult, and for many reasons. So to be able to 'talk' to someone, anyone, either through twitter or Facebook, or the many other avenues social media offers, can only be positive.
It's the abuse of the key board hard man that has people in a tizzy. It can also be the lack of human contact that sends people round the bend. Not me, I love twitter and think those who 'talk' with me, are as much my friend as anyone. Why would they not be? I share with them, as I share with my friends. What's the difference.
However, I digress... the computer thing again. It takes a wee while for me to understand what I'm supposed to do, and most of the time end up with some little man taking over my screen and pointing to the task bar - I can hear him shouting "THERE IT IS - PRESS THAT ONE!" But I get there eventually.
Time has passed so quickly and yet it hasn't really. But computers…where will they go from here?