My wife can type fast also. Maybe she got a lot of practice like your friend in her legal profession. Law school and clerking. Lots of words in the law. Anyway, she too has fingernails that cost more, along with her hair, to maintain than does my whole life. But what is amazing to me is that she can type a zillion words a minute and make virtually no mistakes while simultaneously yelling at me and telling me how I am wrong about everything!! Now that is true multitasking! I can hardly type and breath at the same time And that's doing 30 wpm. With lots of errors. Peace, rs7
I took typing in high school 30 years ago too. All the computers were key punch cards. When I got a computer 3 years ago I went to the "fun" chat rooms to polish my skills. Really helps when you want to dash something out quick to keep up with the chat! Try it!
Growing up with computers helps a lot. I pretty much grew up with the "Instant Messaging" generation. Polls have shown that teens use Instant Messaging now more than they use a phone to communicate with their friends.
i was doing that even before aol/aim/msn/etc. i remember years ago, my friend and i would use a program called telix and i would dial my friends computer using my modem. after we connected, we would be able to type things to eachother. funny thing is, he lived just down the street from me and we'd talk on the phone, too. we did it just because we thought it was cool. this was before aol existed.
One of our mad genius friends from the marina told us years before it happened that the internet was going to be big. He is a self taught computer programmer. He is one of the most interesting dudes I have ever met. He even has a biography written about him...Presumed Lost. He was the youngest person to race across the Atlantic in a sailboat. He kept trying to get us interested in computers, but both of us were so busy with our businesses we never had the time to pursue it until recently. Big mistake
What is really amazing is the fact that the technology age of man is only just getting started. Where we are today with computer technology is only still in its infancy. I envision a world within the next 100 years where everything is completely connected to everything else. PDA's, cellphones, etc -- all combining into some permanetely attached thing to every person who will be able to contact any other person at any time. Transportation (flying) will be needed less often as holographic technology creates "virtual" meeting rooms where people can conduct business. A man in Chicago will be able to sit down at a table where a holographic man from New York and one from Tokyo are also sitting. Personal entertainment will also reach new levels. Virtual worlds will be available for people, who can slip on goggles that recreate, with perfect clarity, any world they wish to explore. Personal storage in computers will reach into the terabyte drives by 2004, and by 2015 personal storage will be measured in petabytes. Processing speeds will continue to increase exponentially until the physical limits of silicon data-processing are reached. However, advances in quantum computing will continue with major breakthroughs that will allow true quantum computers by 2040. So in the small narrow-look at the IT sector now, many people might think that tech is hurting or over-valued, but in the long run, technology will be the only sector worth investing in -- especially when robots completely replace human labor and push us into a neo-capitalistic / socialistic society where all people enjoy whatever it is they want -- either by true worth or holographic recreations of whatever it is they want to own or experience.
And with all the advancement in technology, Aphie Boy still won't be able to make any money by trading.