Computers as a tool have become boring.
life·@exyle·
0.000 HBDComputers as a tool have become boring.
When I grew up my dad sold Macintosh computers. Therefor we had a Mac at home since I was a baby. I grew up with computers. ---  *My dad and I, 1984.* --- I loved computers. My earliest memory is probably playing Dark Castle on the Macintosh. It was wonderful. When I grew older my best friend, that lived on the other side of the street, got a PC. When I saw the games on that I wanted a PC too. I think it broke my dad’s heart. But the reign of Mac was over and he knew it. Not long before he had gotten out of selling Macs and started a successful software company. My first PC was a 166mhz Pentium and had 16mb ram. Windows 95. It was the shit! I used to format that thing every 3 months to keep it up to speed and loved to tinker with it. # Upgrades Every new computer was an amazing experience. Going up from a 166mhz pentium to a 400mhz pentium2 was awesome. When I saved money to buy a Voodoo2 card and saw the graphics that came from that thing my hearth jumped with joy. And it was like that with every upgrade I have ever done since. Pentium 3 933mhz. TNT2 card.My first CD burner. Pentium 4, GeForce card. First time buying 1GB ram. Dual core processors. You name it. Until now. # Tired of computers I don’t know what happened to me. But I just got tired of upgrading. It does not make me feel the same anymore. And I notice this with my clients too. They used to get excited about a new PC (like I used to) but nowadays they see it as an expense they don’t want to make but must. It’s boring. They hate it. And I sense it. Most just want something cheap to keep them going. Why this happened I didn’t understand until today when I had lunch with a colleague. It has subconsciously been bothering me for a while. He said “the big difference between computers back then and computers today is that they have become mandatory. It’s almost impossible to live without one. Most things that are mandatory are not perceived as fun.” The moment he said it I thought "he's right". My clients nowadays buy a new computer because the old one broke down or is no longer usable for some reason. They use the computer for email, banking, to do taxes and to surf the web. Almost nobody buys a new computer because they enjoy a faster computer so freaking much. A computer has become a tool to access technology that we need. But the tool itself, that I used to love so much, has become boring in the process. It has been bothering me all day I can tell you that. ----  Follow Me [@exyle](https://steemit.com/@exyle)
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