My very first encounter with technology came a long period of time back. If memory serves me ideal– and there are a great deal of years filled with a great deal of memories to get in the way– I was 10 or 11 years old and a huge fan of the “Cock Tracy” comic strip.One early morning I opened the local newspaper to the comic page to discover the famous police investigator had actually developed a two-way wrist radio.Nobody, including myself, had never ever
heard of such a thing and a lot of minds, young and old, started working overtime.I despaired
in Dick Tracy and that thing he wore on his wrist and still don’t comprehend how it worked. There was no telephone-type wire connected to that gadget and his words could go nowhere but into space.All I might
state to that was “mule muffins.”
And prior to I might digest the walkie-talkie, a genuine radio appears in my house. From it came a great deal of talking and music.But where did it
come from?We had an electrical wire running into our house but it didn’t talk or sing. I invested a great deal of time checking out holes in the back of that radio but never saw anything that looked like a human being.And Mother told me to stop looking and my life continued
on a path of questions.Along came tv and with it a substantial truckload of mule muffins.There was no chance pictures off people doing numerous things could be made to travel through an electronic wire and into a box-type thing with a screen on it that we might watch.My very first experience with tv came when I was in the U.S. Navy and discovered myself strolling down New York’s Fifth Avenue.A Yankee
baseball video game was being telecast and the balls being tossed to home base looked as huge as a typical cantaloup. I could not imagine what the
ball would have looked like if it had actually been a basketball game.But, television was brand-new and so was the devices and mule muffins.But again, that was all a long time ago and yet to come was the likes of cell phones and international placing systems.Cell phones are a lot like Dick Tracy’s wrist radio. With no electrical energy source and no wires to carry the sound of voices.Somebody please inform me how the voice on the other end of a GPS can understand where you are before understanding how to tell you to get someplace else?Just consider the other possible countless other individuals needing to know how to get to their locations at the same time.And it’s been my experience that the voice you constantly here on the GPS comes from the very same woman.I do have something in my electronic– numb brain favor. My late bride and I were in route to a city in Tennessee a number of years ago when a GPS operator took us off the then Green River Parkway and put us on a
gravel roadway leading up to a farmhouse.A farmer stopped me a short distance from your house and asked where I was going. I asked him if he could tell me the way to Jackson, Tennessee and he readily said no and informed me to leave his property.So there you have most of my trials and errors with technology.To be honest, my only success with mind-blowing was flying a homemade kite. Which only worked if the wind was
right.