Techno Literacy Memoir-Beginning

Technology plays an enormous role in the lives of many people including myself.  I use many means of technology on a daily basis that helps me to cope with my day.  I am a firm believer that technology can help to form an individual's personlaity and it can also conform to an individual's personality.  I think that there are both pros and cons to the advancement of technology.  Technology can be man's best friend or it can hinder individuals from performing to their full capacity.  In my life my good technology experiences definitely out way the bad, for technology has helped me immensely.  My earliest memory of technology has to be the television; although, my parents would limit the amount of television that my sister and I would watch.  Like most children, I was a major fan of Sesame Street and I even had the wallpaper on my bedroom walls until I was 13 years old.  The thing that I distinctly remember about my wallpaper is that the alphabet was scattered all over my wall in different colors.  When my parents decided to decorate my room I guess they really believed in the message that the Sesame Street producers were trying to get across. Another show that has been big in my life is Wheel of Fortune. Every time I went to my grandparents house as a child I knew we were going to watch Wheel of Fortune. I became a really big fand of the show and now I can predict the meaning of many puzzles.  I think that in this day and age people have become so accustomed to using technology that they don't even realize that technology is being utilized.  For example, we take small things for granted such as using a remote control to operate the television.  For many years after televisions were first invented remote controls didn't even exist.  People probably don't realize how much they rely on their remote controls until the batteries go out.

As a child I was not a big video game junky, but I did enjoy other types of games such as bop-it.  I was introduced to bop-it by my cousin at about the age of ten.  Bop-it was fun, but it also forced me to pay close attention and concentrate on the directions that were given by the game.

I never had the nintendo game system, but I did have the Sega Genesis. The only games that I would play on Sega were Pac Man, Sonic The Hedgehog, and The Paper boy. I quickly out grew the video game phase, and didn't get another game system until I was in college. I thought that I had to have the Playstation 2, but I quickly learned that it was a waste of money because I never played the games.