Anyone else feels similarly? No doubt, technology has made many things easier (trying to be fair here), but think about this: if you wanted to enter a note into a file, you wrote it out and placed it in the file. No fuss, no muss. Occasionally, the file needed to be purged of excess and outdated info, but that was OK. It beat getting an error message and having to ask your IT person to fix the problem. Nothing ever went wrong with paper. So, you may ask, why am I starting my column with complaints about tech? Because I have an error message on my computer, and I cannot figure it out. Drives me crazy. Over the past three years, many things have driven each of us crazy. The list is long and multi-faceted. Yet, in spite of the complaints each of us can bring up, we were able to resolve them. That’s the good news. We’re smart, resilient individuals (you have to be in the produce industry). While things may slow us down, they don’t beat us. We’ve discovered workarounds, hired people who can figure out anything (though we don’t know what they’re really doing, pounding away on their expensive laptop keyboards), and innovated. We’ve spent untold amounts of money, keeping up with the latest and greatest equipment and software—all in the elusive search for more free time and a less complicated business environment. Instead, we’ve been rewarded with inflation and have had to make decisions on issues that, to tell the truth, we knew literally nothing about. Yet here we are. We’ve survived, and maybe that’s the secret. I would also say age plays a role. My grandchildren, beginning in preschool, could run technology rings around me. I would mumble thank you when I had to ask a techie question. With two masters’ degrees and decades of maturity, did I admit my shortcomings? Yes, you bet I did—desperate times demanded desperate measures. It was, and is, much cheaper than getting your company’s IT people involved. Now that my grandchildren are in high school, I no longer feel inadequate asking them about tech issues. I have learned from them and in the process, my ego is no longer bruised. Guess it goes to prove that taking a deep breath and trying to figure out how to not only survive but thrive are worthy endeavors. Keep on striving. It beats the alternatives. Tagged analysis, technology. Technology over the past centuries gradually increased power and tension among world superpowers. Mirroring military enhancements are also improvements in communication and in medicine for society, both of which have supported many people. Such medical upgrades have saved countless lives, and in a six-year span, they have most definitely helped more people than weapons have killed civilians. The United Nations reported that from April 2014 to July 2020, around 3,300 civilians died in armed conflicts. That number makes civilians approximately 26% of all deaths in the military. The 1960s made us notice the environment. The analysis reveals that the first significant shift in public environmental discourse took place around the 1960s. From the second half of the 20th century, the environment became an increasingly frequent topic in the countries studied, but not in a good way, often focusing on environmental problems. Disputes during the six-year span.
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