{"id":6244,"date":"2025-11-08T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=6244"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:10:09","slug":"opinion-a-future-without-smartphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/opinion-a-future-without-smartphones\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: A future without smartphones?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"6244\" class=\"elementor elementor-6244\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-14e180ef e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"14e180ef\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-53cc435b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"53cc435b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Let me say at the outset that I hate smartphones. But, I\u2019m not a complete technophobe. I\u2019ve had computers for 45 or more years. My hybrid car probably has more embedded computers than I have functioning neurons in my brain. And when I get ready to forward this column to the newspaper, I\u2019ll do so via email. <\/p><p>Moreover, I have a lifetime credential to teach \u201cComputers and Related Technologies\u201d at the college level, and did so from 1980 until 1984 when the DEC PDP-1170, which was used as a mainframe, was replaced by a few hundred desktop computers. That\u2019s when I stopped teaching Computer Data Processing and Programming in BASIC. Now, I\u2019m practically computer illiterate.<\/p><p>What in the wide, wide world of sports was the State of California thinking when it issued me a \u201clifetime\u201d certificate?<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me say at the outset that I hate smartphones. But, I\u2019m not a complete technophobe. I\u2019ve had computers for 45 or more years. My hybrid car probably has more embedded computers than I have functioning neurons in my brain. And when I get ready to forward this column to the newspaper, I\u2019ll do so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[32,52],"class_list":["post-6244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-culture","tag-technology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}