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Autism & Technology

From a young child to now and probably for the foreseeable future, I have and will like technology. When I was young, if my parents didn't want a random piece of tech, they would give it to me to play and tinker with, but mostly to destroy the thing by taking it apart. But growing up watching "The Gadget Show" and watching "Click", who were telling you about the cutting edge and possibly future tech.



So I grew up being handy with various things; I took electrical engineering (by accident, I took mechanical engineering), and at the time I wanted to become a mechanic, and that didn't last at all. But for years, I tried to keep up with various news about tech. But as the comedian Dara O' Brian once spoke about, 'Tech is a runner running a marathon; you can try to keep alongside it, but ultimately something will happen and cause you to lag behind while it strides further and further away.


For years, I hardly bothered upgrading my phone, while all my friends had smart phones. I was happy with my Nokia 6300, but I have upgraded since then. But when it comes to the computer, I would like to keep up to the current tech level with that, but this is a rather costly hobby to do. But I have built myself a computer several times now; just don't ask me to fix a software issue. But I still await the day from what I saw on "Click", where I saw an automated kitchen, so all you had to do was use an app and order food, and the kitchen will make it. This is a huge step forward in tech, but I see many lazy people getting this.



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