Human Rights Lawyer Describes How Difficult It Is For One Of Her Clients To Understand Current Technology After Spending 30 Years Behind Bars
Washington, DC. Maria Burnett is a human rights lawyer currently working with the Center For Strategic & International Studies, which is headquartered in Washington, DC.
She took to Twitter to share an eye-opening thread about a client she has that has spent the past 30 years behind bars.
Now that this man has been released, he is really finding it difficult to understand current technology, and understandably so.
Just stop and think for a minute how much technology has changed in the past 3 decades. Heck, tech changes so much in a few months, or in a year even.
“My client got out of 30 years of prison about 6 weeks ago,” Maria explained in her first tweet. “Since then, people have been telling him that forms he needs are on the web or that they would email something to him.”
“A few days ago, he shyly admitted to me that he doesn’t understand what any of that means.”
Twitter; pictured above is Maria’s first tweet about this
“I got him a laptop & we spent a day this weekend going over everything, the diff btween cell service & wifi, between texts & email, where to find which thing on a phone vs on a laptop,” Maria continued.
“He got comfortable asking “What is the WIFI password here?” & entered it in the right spot.”
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She went on to say that he really struggled with learning on his laptop and found a lot of the features quite challenging, such as closing and even opening up tabs and using the touchpad.
Basically, everyone thought this man would just know how to function and adapt to the current technology, but how can you do that if you haven’t been part of the world for three decades?
“…I feel guilty for not even recognizing how much there would be for him to learn, and how much it took for him to admit his confusion,” Maria admitted.
“When he was in prison, he sent me emails but Corrlinks is not the same as a laptop on your own with no limits and yet, no help.”
Maria ended her thread by saying he recently completed his first solo Zoom call which is, “a small but confident step into the digital world.”
Twitter; pictured above is another tweet from Maria on the topic
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