How far has technology come?
In my first office job as PA to the manager of a large French bank in Hong Kong, way back in 1976, international communications were via something called a telex – about the size of a small piano (see picture below) – where you had to make a punch tape with no number zero (you had to punch the letter O and then do about three functions to take the tape back and put a slash through the O) and once the tape was finished, it would be about 20 metres long and then had to be fed (noisily) through the machine – oh, and I had to do it all in French! Took me all day to complete the task, I was almost in tears at the end, and i was only just 20 years old!
1970's office technology
I remember when the fax was invented – that was revolutionary – especially for building, architectural and design offices. he first mobile phone I ever saw, which belonged to the builder I worked for in the early 1990’s was the size of a small house brick, and had a base pack the size of a small brief case to charge it!
Imagine running your business now without your mobile phone with its calendar, address book, GPS, internet access, and, oh yes, it can even make phone calls!
Yes, it might mean that we are hardly ever able to turn it off, and are stressed by how available we are, but just be grateful for how easy communication tasks are these days – an attitude of gratitude in every aspect of our lives is something to live up to.
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