Old technology v new technology

So this whole Color Code/People Code thing has been quite facsinating. I think people in general are just interesting. God must sit on his cloud and just be thoroughly entertained at what losers his children are. Technology may change and the way people accomplish things may change, but in reality, I think people and their personalities haven't changed much from the time that man got kicked out of the garden.

Speaking of technology advances, I work in the Ivory Tower. People wander about facinated with their books and "old stuff", but it is also buzzing with innovation, creativity and advancement. The office I work in is all about advancement - paperless, two computer screens at every station, time effeciency, etc., etc. Well, with all of this technology, the Accounting Department is still using carbon copies of checks. While some of their procedures are done electronically, I still have to write checks by hand - three times (because there are two carbon copies), so it is easier to walk over to the typewriter and write checks to our government in a matter of seconds (because yeah, I type that fast).

So this morning I was preparing some checks for our Department of Homeland Security and our summer intern asks "What is that machine?" I was completely baffled. "You mean the TYPEWRITER?!" "Oh" she responds, "I've never seen one before." Suddenly I felt like the most ancient person on the planet. How can you not know what a typewriter is? I can understand not using one - we are surrounded by computers, but come on, watch an old movie or TV show and you'll see one - Hello, "9 to 5" or "Working Girl". I remember 8th Grade Word Processing we had to spend half the term learning to type on the typewriter and then the remaining half using "Word Processors" (yeah, they weren't even called computers yet.) I guess if someone showed me their square rule I wouldn't know what to do with it either. I'm not as old as some people.