Our perceptions of computers used to stem from old “Star Trek” episodes. We’d see William Shatner talking into a speaker, and all of a sudden a robotic yet feminine voice would reply “does not compute” or something like that. Today we realize computers are far more complex. Yet, at the same time, they’re more user-friendly than they were during the PC boom of the early ’80s.
But for those who have retired from the workforce and don’t have routine access to them, the current wave of computerized technology can seem somewhat staggering.
Thanks to programs provided by the Life Long Learning Center, seniors are within a bus ride of learning the basics of computers and how to use them. Transportation is provided from Vickery Towers to Treemont Retirement Center in North Dallas.
“Most of the students are beginners with computers,” says Center representative Jean Paul Paretz. “Sometimes they have computers that are given to them by their children or are thinking about buying one and don’t know anything about it.