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From Me To You - Feb 2025
As I get older, I find that the challenges of today’s technology get harder and harder to navigate. For example, I recently tried to log on to a website, only to be stopped short by the seemingly obvious and simple question, “Are you human?”
In the past I have breezed past such queries with a basic check of a box, or by picking three pictures that included a traffic light. Not today. The obstacle presented to me involved a riddle that harkened back to an SAT test.
It began innocently enough. “Click on any images that resemble the example.” Hah, I can do that! But what was I looking at? There appeared to be two subjects, however, figuring out what those things were was not going to be easy. After a few minutes it occurred to me that I could be looking at a guitar and some sort of bird. Perhaps an owl? OK, I was getting the hang of it.
On to the second part of the riddle. Pick any images that contained a guitar and/or an owl. I tried looking directly at the nine possibilities, but nothing there seemed remotely bird-like, or musical for that matter. Then I thought that maybe it was one of those 3-D images, where you have to unfocus your eyes a bit and let things swim into view. Nope, that just gave me a headache and made me feel a tad foolish. In despair I squinted a little and tipped my head to the right. Hold on, was that the curve of a guitar? It was possible I suppose... Well, what did I have to lose? I chose three of the pictures that contained that vague shape and, closing my eyes, pressed ‘enter’. I am not entirely sure if I was correct, or if the website just took pity on me, but it granted me access — only to place me immediately into a queue, as there were too many people trying to log in at the same time!
At this point I had lost the will to navigate any more prompts or intelligence tests and I closed my computer in frustration. I spent the rest of the afternoon with a cool compress on my eyes, and a soothing libation at my elbow, wondering when I had officially become too
old to understand new technology.
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Catherine Uretsky
Editor in Chief, Estrella Publishing