technological advance?

So, I've been working three days on a borrowed computer. Friday I was issued my laptop. When I'm at work it connects to my larger monitor and keyboard through a docking station, meaning it wouldn't seem any different than a normal computer during working hours. So, I took my new laptop home with me this weekend to become familiar with it and make sure the off campus network connections are working. The network and wireless connections had problems, but I was able to access something unusual. This new laptop has a feature I've never seen, never ever. I'm told it is something available on new models and I'm the first person at SP to have one. What is it?....Are you curious?...Well, I'll tell you. It is a fingerprint sign-in. Yeah, that's right - I use my fingerprint to activate my laptop. I still have the option to type in a login and password OR I can just slide my finger across the fingerprint reader and I'm in. I had to set up this new finagled contraption. Once that was done I tried it out. I got in. If Kenyon had been here I would have had him try to see what happens when it is not my fingerprint.

The reader works kind of like the scanners at grocery stores with lasers and stuff, it's just smaller to fit on my laptop. Crazy, isn't it? I had to share! I'd only seen this kind of stuff on TV and in movies, I've certainly never had to use it myself. I feel like I've reached the stage in life where I can start saying, "Back in my day...." Like, back in my day we didn't use computers. We used typewriters and when you wanted to move a sentence to another place on the page you had to re-type the whole page! And, back in my day we didn't even have this crazy thing called the Internet. Back in my day, you had to remember and type in your login and password, we didn't have those fingerprint readers to login in to computers. Back in my day...