tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1082975032486775110.post8007627621614772791..comments2023-10-23T06:42:01.270-07:00Comments on teachingwithteching: Identity Tourism and AmericanaJim Haendigeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11485304190555289210noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1082975032486775110.post-89964133568879006452008-03-16T13:21:00.000-07:002008-03-16T13:21:00.000-07:00I like your thoughts on cybertyping here, but more...I like your thoughts on cybertyping here, but more than anything this quote got me thinking: <BR/><BR/>"in our lifetime, guys like us went from bragging about how much horsepower their cars have to how much RAM and Memory their computers contain."<BR/><BR/>I immediately thought of my two male cousins and how this hasn't changed for them. That is, technology left them behind and they're still bragging about how much horsepower their cars have. I wonder, in this quote, who the "guys like us" are..that is, who's the "us" that computer technology swept up and who's the "them" that got left behind? Lucas and Brad (said cousins) went to the HS I went to which was crazy poor and rural and we all learned to type on typewriters and only got computers when I was in my senior year and they had already graduated. My family pushed me to go to college, so I left and was forced to learn technology but for them, but their family didn't expect this and instead expected them to stay near the family and get good blue collar jobs. They did, and they're doing really well for themselves (Lucas actually runs turbines at a local hydroelectric facility and probably makes more than I do) but.... they do not use computers. They have sweet old cars and amazing 4-wheelers and work on the outboards on their boats and....their technology literacy is in different places but I think in part when the shift happened, it brought some with and left some behind. Then again, if you were to show up at Partenen's bar in Dollar Bay, Michigan and not know anything about horsepower, you would be the one left behind. <BR/><BR/>I'm not sure what this means exactly, but it got my brain thinking about the haves and havenots, but also how those terms are really dependent on the climate within which one exists. <BR/><BR/>Thanks for the brain fuel.kristinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16589066910958948930noreply@blogger.com