Sometimes Simplicity Speaks for Itself, Celebrating the Classic Computer Mouse
Even with all the technology out there beckoning us to try new ways of approaching things, even with new ideas and fancy toys- sometimes old habits die hard. Nothing moves faster in this world than technology and most people are right in line waiting to turn in their next year’s laptop model or digital camera only to be in line for the years after. It’s like seeing Halloween decorations in July- people have a hard time waiting and it appears to be harder to wait as technology speeds along. While techies are anxiously waiting for new gadgets like a child waits to find coins under their pillow in place of a lost tooth, some people prefer to take the “if it’s not broke- why fix it approach,” of specific things like the computer mouse.
Why not celebrate the computer mouse? It’s like the equivalent to discovering the wheel in many ways, well the wheel on the mouse was a great achievement all its own, an evolution of something that is already great! The ability to save mountains of time by being able to physically make contact within a computer screen rather than pecking Morse code to create a line in space- invited an entire population of people to embrace the personal computer that had never been able to embrace it before, and what an embrace!