Data Inputting
It is often said that the Difference Engine (or the computer, as some newfangled types would have it) is the greatest invention since the industrial revolution, enabling humanity in a way that even the Spinning Jenny could not. Computers fall into two broad fields - recreational consoles, and important professional business type work terminals. They are, essentially, man made life forms, which are clever, yet primitive. Like all life forms, computers need something to eat (other than electricity), and this comes in the form of data. Though computers do not use data in the way that a car might use petrol, it serves an excellent purpose in keeping them from getting bored. (Nobody wants a bored computer on their hands, otherwise it might decide to take over the world). Data must be fed to the computer, and this proccess is called data inputting. Usually a job for which a degree is an inexplicable neccesity, data inputting involves staring at a computer screen for many hours a day, typing alpha numeric strings of mainly incomprehensible, largely useless information, in order to feed the beast. Where as for many the computer is a great enabler, a reason to demand foolish hourly rates and the biggest help in our lives since sliced abacusses, the relationship a data inputter has with his console is not dissimilar to that between a slave and his master, or a lion tamer and his quarry. Data inputting jobs are rife the world over, second only to call centre work in terms of their ubiquity, which is fortunate, since to this date few have held down a position as a data inputter for more than a couple of weeks.Conversations
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