Hello, I’m Lucy Biebel. My very favorite things include: Texas Renaissance Festival, kitties, Michael Jackson, watching movies, reading books, writing stories, nature, comedy, fashion, coffee, Def Leppard, and wearing costumes any chance I get (pictured here)
For a long time, enjoying the things I love did not really require that I embrace hi-tech stuff.
It's always been a running joke among my friends and family that I’m somewhat of a dinosaur, which has enabled me to maintain my distance from technology for so long—it was charming/amusing that Lucy was always struggling to do basic things with electronic equipment, like burn a CD, pay a bill online, or make a decent pot of coffee. So everyone would gladly step up and help me, making little jokes at my expense.
I didn’t have to deal with the equipment myself, so psh. Joke was on them.
Since beginning college, I’ve been forced to reluctantly join the rest of my generation and become more tech-savvy…though it hasn't been easy, because I've hung on to my bad attitude about technology as long as I could get away with it. Attaching files to an email was something I struggled with for three semesters.
But, having been a member of the degree-bearing workforce and now that I'm working on degree #2, the time for my pitifully charming techno-ignorance has passed. People who do NOT know me do not find it charming…they find it aggravating. They find it inconvenient, confusing, distressing, disruptive….
And it is.
In this technoliteracy memoir, I have been forced to look back over my shoulder at my evolution alongside technology since the beginning, to which I discovered did not really get going until I was about 15…and continued to move slowly until I was 23. Now, with my 25 birthday approaching, I am finally starting to understand technology. But now that I know why I was reluctant to it in the first place, I am much more open to evolving alongside it.
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