[Blindtlk] technology. Is it essential to success?

[Peter Wolfe]

   How often does electricity or a system wide failure occur though?
Seriously this happens not that often nor do sighted people have much
to do in office work either like in the recent South Korean bank
system. I agree that braille is the most important skill of most blind
people that and improvization. Yes, you heard it improvizing is a
skill that I feel that needs to be taught more often than perhaps
anything even more than braille. Fact is that braille cannot
completely work to convey information to others using a standard
braille typewriter that is just for personal uses. We all need to
think of ourselves as individuals with personalities then our
blindness is secondary not the other way round. All I need to do is to
have a job, then I can try out some ideas in action is all.


hugs,
Peter

On 3/21/13, Bonnie Ainsworth <bainsworth65 at windstream.net> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
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-- 
Cordially,
Peter Q Wolfe, BA
cum laude Auburn University
e-mail: yogabare13 at gmail.com
"If you don't stand up for something your willing to fall for anything"
Peter Q Wolfe
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