Sometimes technology is cruel

Sometimes, Laptops and Their Technology are Cruel

That is ultimately the fundamental lesson here, as students work to fail, teachers become frustrated, and parents become aggravated, Computers can wreak havoc on our lives.

Sometimes documents don’t save. Sometimes programs won’t open. Sometimes keys get stuck. Sometimes audio just blatantly cuts out. And sometimes, computers even shut down for no apparent reason.

Sometimes, the laptops are cruel. And always, when things like this happen,  we do the same thing. We retype our documents. We shutdown and restart, we give up our computer for days to be repaired, we try and manually fix things ourselves. And we go on. This is the price of having convenient technology, at times. And also, arguably, the noblest expression.

Sometimes, laptops are cruel, and you have no choice but to accept that as part of the bargain called modern life and technology. And when it is your turn to deal with it, you do.

But what if we didn’t have Laptops? How much more difficult and time consuming would creating text documents and creative presentations be?  

Surely some older, dust-streaked Dell laptop can be forgiven for it as screen freezing up as it is already outdated and just simply isn’t compatible with the new programs we use, even if we just typed up an essay that took us hours to complete, and then is randomly deleted.. Surely, the rest of us become overwhelmed, experiencing deletion and devastation from the comfort of desk chairs and living room couches. But now is the time when we need to realise that perhaps you simply can’t rely on old technology.

Bad enough, the technology for these laptops won’t stop being updating. Bad enough, the Internet is requiring more memory of your computer to properly operate, people still ignore the obvious requirements needed to take advantage of our writing, gaming, literature and entertainment programs. Bad enough, all that, yet at the end of the day, updates and memory clogging programs, created by other human geniuses, by human intelligence, human corruption, and human economic predation, is not going to stop for you.

Sometimes, though, you have to wonder if technology programmers take into consideration that the average person isn’t as up-to-date with their laptops and desktops as they should be.

After about 2009, when Apple started to create touchscreen laptops, people didn’t realise the burden that they were getting themselves into. After about 2008, when computer companies started to commonly input high definition cameras into their laptops, consumers failed to acknowledge that these cameras required a large amount of processing space and memory to function as they should. After 2013, when Google released their Chromebooks, customers noticed that they were so poorly built that they became unreliable and also needed so much updating, the laptop didn’t sell well and now is being re-manufactured to the point where it should run programs normally and not fall apart into pieces.

This is the price of convenience at your fingertips - you can only use it for so long and will eventually have to pay a lot for updates, both physical and program wise.