I Went Flat Last Night

“I Went Flat Last Night”- Dave Warlick- 2¢’s Worth

This article stood out to me very much when I started to read it. It is like one of our everyday happenings with technology today. Something happens in the computer and the connection does not work any more. This is exactly what happened to Dave Warlick. He was getting ready for a conference in Sydney. He got everything ready and it was all working when he went to bed. The connection was great, sound, video working and his PowerPoint presentation slides all ready to go for the conference. So he went to bed for two hours and woke up ready for the conference. However, when he woke up he could not use the PowerPoint presentation. He could not control the slides! Therefore, he talked to his office manger in on the conference and he said that his connection had been lost and he is kicked off the program. I realize that you cannot always rely on technology especially when you need it to work for you most. I think we have talked about this in class the technology is the future of our world whether it is in the classroom or at home or in the business industry. It will be are way of life in 20-40 years. However, I do not think that we can always rely on technology for us. This story/situation has happened in my life and maybe even yours. You are up late doing a project or a paper and all of a sudden, you notice that your printer is not working and you cannot login into your email to send it to our self. You start to think what can I do, and think and think even more. Nothing comes to your mind besides that it is 12:00 am, you need to get to bed and print the paper. I know everyone has had these nights. (I can say I have had multiple times when this has happened to me.) Therefore, you decide to save it to you computer and see if you can either send it to yourself or even print it when you wake up tomorrow. You go to bed and wake up the next morning hoping that you can print it but you notice that you computer has crashed overnight. You are so worried that you are not going to turn in your biggest paper every. Therefore, you get on the computer and go to the documents hoping that the paper had saved before the computer crashed! You are so happy when you see that is had saved and you can final print it. However, my point is that technology may be the next big thing in life but there is always a point when you cannot always rely on it.