Friday on My Mind – Technology And Our Private Lives
“Och*, technology – it’s the Deil’s work,” my Scottish Dad said in 1964, when I bought one of the early transistor radios. Dad died in 1991, so he missed the Internet (and Windows 98, the best version). He also missed WIFI, smart phones, internet banking, Facebook, Twitter, Skype, Bluetooth, video and music streaming and that nemesis of 21st century parents − Facetime. I’m not sure what he’d make of hackers, spammers, viruses, malware, or dealing…