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Your life without a computer: what does it look like?

Life without my computer !

No more blogging
- Shock horror, I’d have to revert back to keeping a diary/journal
- Or perhaps writing to people I know.
No more photo preparation
- I take 1000’s of photos every year. That would come to a grinding halt. Perhaps I would revert to film and take up processing my own prints. I’m not sure my pension could support such a transition.
No more emails
- I remember work life before email was invented. Communicating via telex and fax as well as good old hand written notes/letters
- Emails were the bain of my life during my latter work years. Just too many to deal with each day.
No more social media
- I think this might be a good thing. No more photos of people’s food or tiresome cat videos.
- Also a positive thing, more letter writing. We recently received a letter from family in Australia. Amazing the joy it brought.
No more online retail therapy
- I would be forced to go out to the shops ! I was ever the reluctant shopper before computers and the Internet. Especially while still working, when shopping was compressed into the weekend or even just a Saturday. I hated it.
Would we ever see a doctor again ?
- Ever since the pandemic, access to doctors has become severely restricted. At least things like repeat prescriptions can currently be managed online. And there are econsults to bridge the gap when you can’t get an appointment. I dread to think what would happen without computers.