#technophobic

I’m glad to see that NaNoWriMo was able to articulate a moderate and reasonable position around AI. The vitriolic and largely unreasonable hatred of AI (despite legitimate concerns around training with unauthorized creative work) is technophobic at best. It’s just a new tool, and like new tools, we will adapt to use it ethically over time.

love vinyls and 

plugging out, 

Technophobic but still rely on just a “little” bit of technology. Just a tiny amount. Just a smidge. Just Cars, Air conditioning, heating, stoves, ovens, airplanes, gps, artifical intelligence, the internet, and PHONES. The biggest thing baby boomers love to complain about is PHONES. Yet they claim to be so dead set on ensuring that their kids aren’t allowed to use them.

I didn’t want to just jump onto someone else’s post, so I’m replying to this post from @pierceaholic in reference to the boss being a technophobe. 

I actually try to embrace this aspect for most of my bosses. Though it shows up in different small ways for all of them. 

I enjoy the technophobic boss. In fact, I really tried to make all my bosses embrace that trait, though each does have tiny little skills in that arena. Some can barely work their phones, while others are a little more savvy. But none of them could even come close to Shaundi’s skills which pale in comparison to Matt and Kinzie’s, of course. 

Remy is only skilled with tech that destroys--e.g., scopes and explosives. Beyond that she’s very much a luddite. SHe can barely work her old Nokia phone, that she keeps forever and a day until an incident with the Luchadores and one of their trucks (one of those automatic grenade weapons may also have been involved) shows her that the phone actually isn’t as indestructible as she thought it was.

Furia’s got shelves of notebooks, journals filled with scribbles and artwork, as well as old journals of her mother and grandmothers. That tradition was passed to her in that way. It’s something that has to be addressed in SRIV because she is highly computer phobic. Though she is tech savvy enough to change ringtones (her baby brother taught), and send texts. With the advent of “OK Google” type services she got a little better at it, but she’s more likely to lose or destroy her phone than any other boss. 

Cinq is probably the savviest. He’s neurotic about his phone and what’s viewable. Being a bit of a hound, that shouldn’t be surprising. I bet Shaundi shared most of her tips with him before they started sleeping together. He’s on social media and good at building interactions there.

Ravi is probably the least tech savvy. She doesn’t do well with phones, does worse with computers. About the only technology she’s well-versed in is Matt Miller.