Your life without a computer: what does it look like?
I am old enough to remember a time when most people didn’t have computers and cell phones were rare, expensive, and brick-shaped. Imagining my life without a computer is relatively easy for me. It’s just like my life now with more time at the library. I’d probably be more productive in terms of time dedicated to work, but less productive overall without the tools available online for research and learning.
I consider my cellphone a pocket computer, but again, I remember the time before, and I was a late adopter of cell phones. I use my phone a lot more than I use my computer because it is more portable and has the very same internet available through it. (My computer is a laptop, but it’s extra large and extra heavy. So much so that I have taken to using a tablet or my phone and mini-keyboard as a more portable writing device.)
To answer the question: I wake up in the morning and I don’t check messages, my social media, or the news. I just get up, take a shower, and have my breakfast,
Then I make coffee and go sit down to write. On paper. Like it’s 1982. I might have a nice Sears electric typewriter though; I did back in the day. At some point, if I had a day job, I would drive to that and do that thing.
Returning home, I’d start dinner and laundry. Then I would eat dinner, clean up the kitchen, and shuffle the laundry around. Then I would probably try to write, find I am too tired, and watch tv instead, perhaps with some folding of the laundry in the mix.
It would be a similar routine with kids in the house except twice as loud and taking four times longer to do each task that involves kids, food, and/or laundry.
Rinse, repeat forever. It’s not so bad, really.
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