[Blindtlk] technology. Is it essential to success?

[Bonnie Ainsworth]

I agree with you, Dave.  Before technology, there was writing with a Braille 
Writer and a slate and stylus, and I can assure you that both can be used 
when the electricity goes out.  Technology does fail, so throwing out the 
non-technological ways of communication is akin to throwing the baby out 
with the bathwater.  As I see it, we need to have the attitude of giving it 
more than 110% when we're at work anyway.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "justin williams" <justin.williams2 at gmail.com>
To: "'Blind Talk Mailing List'" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 11:28 AM
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] technology. Is it essential to success?


I agree.  You have to have natural skills, even more so than the sighted.
However,  the technology opens doors closed to us earlier.  There are just
some fields we really had no access to without it.  Most things could be
done, but you would have to go around your elbow to do them, and your skill
set had to be so far above average.  Even now, you still have to be better
than your sighted counterpart just so you can compete.

-----Original Message-----
From: blindtlk [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Hyde, David
W. (ESC)
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 12:08 PM
To: 'Blind Talk Mailing List'
Subject: [Blindtlk] technology. Is it essential to success?

You and I do not disagree about the importance of technology, but, I
believe, of its place. It makes things easier, cheaper, and faster. I would,
however argue that there is nothing being done with technology now that
wasn't done without its current incarnation in former times. Since we're
talking about employment, it has an overriding import. We need to use the
tools that others are using. But would you lose your non-technological
skills if, all of a sudden, technology stopped working? I maintain that the
critical thinking skills, the ability to use anything available and the
creativity that an employee needs to possess for most jobs is more important
than the technology used. Without these, most technology becomes a very
expensive paperweight.