Time
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Time as a resource, wasted
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Opinion
Some websites send codes in emails which then means I spend about eight or nine minutes logging in and about ten seconds to do what I need to on the site. Someone suggested I store my passwords on my laptop! Really? There is not even a single file or document on any of my laptops with any of my personal details on it. Storing passwords on a device that has access to the internet is, to me, like unfurling a banner from Nelson's column, the Eiffel Tower; the Statue of Liberty; the Petronas Tower; the Hagia Sophia; and The Burj Khalifa with my family's names, addresses, dates of birth, and where and when they go on holiday. It is quite simply monumentally idiotic to leave a wide open door to your life. It's fine if you never go online or never store ANYTHING on you device but a single visit to a website that, today for me, was on 'Functional Imagery' will set a chain of action in motion to discover why I went there; and that happened before we had A.I. being automatically downloaded to assist with our spelling and grammar in real-time. I have predictive text all over the blooming place now. I have to regularly format the Hard Disk and re-install an old operating system with no technical support. I long to be able to make Windows XP work again. I have the disk but I cannot activate it. There used to be a CD / DVD that you could buy with an activation function in code on it. Alas, that kind of essential function has been overwhelmed by brain-washed optimism for an invasive future.
How did we get to this? Once upon a time I could do things really quickly; now it takes about ten times as long to do the same task. Modern technology has slowed me down because I don't need help and support from additional software because I never, ever do anything that I don't understand and never do anything that cannot be done as a stand-alone action. There simply is no reason to complicate anything outside of data mining to add to the ability to mine ever more information.
Things just don't add up. I can work through the OU books for my next module(s) but I have no direction in the form of requirements for associated TMAs and EMAs. I am largely kicking my heels. The only thing I can do is guess what I need to do and write several essays which I shall be able to use as donor essays to amalgamate components into a single essay on the same day I find out the first TMA questions to answer. Submission should then be in the first two days from the module(s) opening date. I suspect though that I shall have to wait for everyone to catch up because my module(s) also require interaction with other students. I know why the OU think it is a good idea for their students to interact but it really is so time-consuming.
Giving free-rein to thoughts and ideas means letting them breed unfettered in my mind. I, like everyone else, have the capacity to be mean and selfish, to steal intangible emotions, to worry and deny, to coerce and control. Some of us are better at it than others.