My brain is not "Plug & Play"! That's all there is to it. Over the years it has performed amazingly - memorizing times tables and Shakespeare, analyzing discounts and percentages while shopping, keeping at the ready obscure tidbits of information for Trivial Pursuit - it has done an impressive job.
But after all this use and abuse, I believe it's about to cry "Uncle"! At any given moment it must handle the bombardment of Facebook, Twitter, Bluetooth, 3-G Highspeed, Skype-mania, MAC vs PC, HD-Blu Ray - all beeping and chirping for attention. Every minute computer and cell phone technology morphs into totally incompatible, incomprehensible "must-have" instruments. We sign our lives away on purchasing equipment with more accessories than Britney Spears, and have resigned ourselves to an incredible learning curve and the loss of all existing data. It's just a given. Has anyone ever accessed the CD-ROM User Guide?
Remember when equipment had manuals, written only in English, with pictures and diagrams of the item in case you were a more visual learner. I swear I could fix pretty much anything on my old Volvo just by reading the Owner's Manual. (Sadly, it didn't cover cracked engine blocks...) I thought technology was supposed to make our lives easier!
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