Do you remember actually having to get up and change channels. It was really quite nice. No Alexa, no funny rubber buttons and no scanning endless options. Plus you do at least 10 steps to get closer to your daily quota.
Those were the days.
Namaste and Thank You for Reading.🙏
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What technology would you be better off without, why?
If we are able to strip away our layers of technology and find we are better off without it,because continuously being faster and better is subject to the law of diminishing returns then that is no bad thing.
We are all looking for that ultimate experience that connects us with others and justifies our existence in this World ,bit like having sex and creating offspring without the difficulties of raising the little blighters.
“You have an I Q higher than 83.7% of the existing population and we have just scored our highest score ,equivalent to beating 95% of the population”.
Playing a free Play store game means I’m bombarded by these statistics. Are they real or made up,I don’t know,but we would be better off without them.
I contrast that with my love of taking unique quirky pictures of my natural surroundings such a this one of winter berries.Out of focus and totally unprofessional,well you try taking a photo with a dog pulling at you with one hand and a full poo bag in the other.Technology in my phone camera will fix that,but I don’t want it to.
The picture to me reflects my experience. Available technology increasingly concentrates on perfection and replication of how we would like to see things.
I would say hold on,use the hammer,the paintbrush,make mistakes,make your own World,we are not in a race with each other. Yes it’s handy to have tools to make things better,but life is not perfection and accuracy,some of the best discoveries have happened by accident
Like penicillin.
Don’t let technology override your initiative.
Namaste.
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