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Chapter 10: A Computer-illiterate Man Living in Today's world What kind of times are we living in? I cannot understand them. Young people had computers as their childhood toys, and they also grew up with computers as tools. Every modern person knows how to operate hundreds of different kinds of multimedia computers. Today's computers are like television sets, refrigerators and washing machines - they are part and parcel of present day living. I am also amazed by how today's bosses operate. Bosses bring their notebook computers with them wherever they go. From anywhere in the world, they are able to give commands to their employees as if they were sitting right there in the director's room. Modern people no longer communicate with one another by mailing letters through the post office. They have e-mail, which eliminates constraints of time and space. This is astonishing! What is the digital age? What is the cyber city in the net? What is virtual reality? I don't know the answer to any of these questions. I've been through the agricultural age and the industrial age. At the advent of the computer - the information age - I was wholeheartedly taking the plunge into Buddhism and cultivation. I didn't notice or pay attention to the changes of the world outside. I didn't even know that once we crossed the threshold of the millennium, the way we live and work would have a complete makeover. The world's information net is like a vast sea where we can never finish reading the knowledge it contains. Buddhism can be propagated through an internet connection. I didn't even know that you can write using a computer. I didn't know that you can use the computer to draw. Nevertheless, what shocks me is that in the modern technological age, computers have turned traditional meaning and imagination topsy-turvy. The use of computers is so widespread that that it is unimaginable. I have discovered that I live in the past. I am a computer-illiterate man living in today's world. I only know Buddhism, cultivation, writing and drawing. I have neither studied computers nor touched them. I feel I must have a dull brain. Please tell me, smart people - should a person like me start learning how to use a computer?
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