Judging by the downvotes, I think my comment might have been misinterpreted. I was addressing the writer of the Fortune article in absentia, not criticizing the poster of the article on Lemmy.
By way of clarification, my expression of agreement was with OP’s general sentiment (the global poly crisis), not with the WEF quote, which I was just adding context for.
It’s a pity that your Pulitzer Prize level writing didn’t enable you to craft something more literate than a two sentence clickbait title for your article.
For context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You'll_own_nothing_and_be_happy
I share your concerns.
Certainly did, though IRC was the best typing class of all.
We’re the same age or thereabouts. I have very similar memories. I was lucky enough to get a PowerBook 1400c as a graduation gift from high school. Laptops were still something of a rarity with students, though.
Perhaps because of its relative heft, I don’t remember carrying it around much, and certainly not to class. I lived in an older dorm that didn’t have Ethernet, so we dialed up to the campus modem bank and either used school shell accounts or PPP for internet connectivity. I ran some PhoneNet and LocalTalk around the dorm to connect with a few other Mac users
I had a Nokia 5190 phone which got a lot of use playing Snake, but it wasn’t a constant presence in my life.
I figured this was some funny attempt at anonymization, even though everyone has their backs turned to the camera.
Oh, this was the case at my school too! The lab became a nerd lounge during lunch and recess.
I remember this extremely well, because I am indeed old enough to remember these things!
School computer lab memories:
School #1: c. 1989-1991 - Apple IIGSes with ImageWriter printers and a shared 5.25" disk box that the instructor could use to load software onto multiple machines.
The school also had a bunch of Commodore 64s that had recently been replaced by the IIGS machines. There were also a few Apple IIc machines (thought they were neat at the time, and still do!)
My sixth grade teacher was an amateur coder and taught me a bit of Pascal.
School #2:
c.1991-1993 - Apple IIe machines. Had a first experience using a Mac SE and a Mac Classic, which I thought was amazing.
School #3:
c. 1994-1997
Mac Classics in a line in the library, A lab filled with Macintosh LC3s, and another lab with PCs running earlyish versions of Windows and DOS, networked with Netware IPX. I was old enough at this point to be a student network admin.
The school also had some lingering Mac SE/30s, and a store room filled with TRS-80s, which I unsuccessfully tried to get my computer teacher to give me. However, the librarian gave me an original IBM 8086 and a monitor, so I took it home and learnt assembly.
Love the overhead projector in the corner of the lab shown. They were ubiquitous!
Fair enough. I’ll live with my downvotes, but it is a pet peeve. In the spirit of making a more tangible contribution, albeit still an off-topic one, I’ll leave this slightly satirical Mc Sweeney’s article here, which addresses this scourge: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/two-sentence-headlines-are-everywhere-heres-why-you-should-be-concerned