If you ask almost everybody what their opinion is about technology, most likely all of them will tell you that it makes life easier in many ways. You can purchase, read, chat and see people at the same time, have sex, all from your easy chair in your living room. You don’t even make the effort to wash yourself or be presentable, your screen won’t reveal your stinky armpit to the person you are talking to.
It is only when you start hitting that point – and sooner or later everybody, to different degrees does – in which technology doesn’t work quite as smoothly as you wished or is not as simple as you had expected, that you start feeling, well, lost.
It could be a problem related to your smartphone, certain operations that you were able to do before but for some reason you can’t do anymore, it could be Itunes that doesn’t allow you to purchase a certain album because you live in a different country than the States, it could be trying to speak with that empty void called Tripadvisor (good luck with that).
And because 99,9% of the people that use technology are not programmers, well, you find yourself quite useless and inept.
In our case the problem was quite common but because it is a very personal issue to us it forced us to face an unpredictable side of reality. In short, our website was hacked and eradicated from the web.
We, with our scarce knowledge of programming, can’t do much more than just curse at the computer, but it looked like even the tough guys, the ones that do it for a living, didn’t know much more of what was going on either.
Technology is dead. Long live technology.
Just hope you will never cross paths with the bad side of the evil empire. Because just like trolls, haters or hackers, you will find yourself fighting with an enemy that has no identity.
And that will make you feel pretty much like Don Quixote.
