I had my first mobile phone when I was 18 years old. Since that I have had many kinds of phones during all these years. I have been proven huge technological leap over two decades. Phones are not actually phones anymore. They are small personal computers and you can call, text, use email, pay bills among all the other things with these necessities. We had computer at home when I was child, but it was my brother’s and I did’t use it. I have never been interested computer games in my life. When I started to study to my profession and went to working life it has been self-evident to start to work with computers.

I work as an optician/optometrist. Working in a client service is impossible to do via computer from home. You have to be with your customer in real life when you are doing eye-examination to your client. Pandemic was also very hard to our field and many optical stores suffered during these hard two years. People need to see despite the corona and luckily situation seems to get near normal bit by bit. We use technical instruments and digital knowledge in our work and I believe in the future our work might be totally different than today. Virtual appointments and 3 D printing will bring optical field in new level in the future.

Risks in open digital society are things we should take to a notice. In my work this general data protection regulation has appeared in our work in many papers which need to be asked to read, filled and signed by patients before we can start to work with them. This regulation is useful but it should been done more easily. I believe this will get easier in reasonable time.

I have learned much from this task and it was very interesting to read other’s experiences from their lives. Videos were nice and made my imagination to run. It is incredible how mankind has developed during last centuries and decades. I learned how important it is as a civil and as an employee to take care of the information security.

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Matti Vehviläinen