I completely forgot about the new media issue. I should never be allowed a week off in an assignment game, because I get totally distracted.
My new media issue this week is touch-screen voting. Don't get me wrong, I love computers. We have more computers in my house than people, in fact. And if you add in gaming systems, computers outnumber us 2:1.
But one dark day last fall (on a weekend, of course), my university-issued laptop had a complete nervous breakdown. Refused to boot. I spent the better part of the weekend getting that darling (with my research paper) running again. Why do I have a certainty in the pit of my stomach that my vote could end up in a similar "blue screed" disaster?
To me, this is just one more example of technology companies promising more than they can deliver and consumers not being informed enough to say, "Disagreeing with you does not make me a Luddite; do not make your alpha test my future."
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