Gotta love technology

[JPSmit]

Mrs JP & I sitting, watching the news this a.m. With 5 (5!) pieces of technology on the go, laptop, ipad, kindle fire and two smart phones - sheesh.

 

[DrEntropy]

"Run your business from a beach in Aruba!"

I've a client who does pretty much just that.

 

[aeronca65t]

Tonight I was filing the points on my street Midget and trying to figue out what's wrong with the AM radio in my MGB.

We live on different planets. layful:

 

[Sarastro]

Being a card-carrying electrogeek, I suppose I should be enamored with the latest technology and ready to get every new, cool thing as it comes out.

I'm not. In fact, I'm the latest of the "late adopters." I still don't have a smart phone, and I was one of the last guys on my block even to get a cell phone. Same for CD players, VCRs, DVD players, and so on. When these things are new, the technology isn't perfect and it's expensive. I wait until it gets better and other people have hammered the prices down to where they should be. Then I might jump on the bandwagon.

 

[DrEntropy]

When I can get a Nikon camera in a CrackerJack box, I'll be a believer.

 

[AngliaGT]

I've got a cell phone that I only use to make phone calls on,
& I'm still working on installing that Craig Powerplay 8 track player in the
Cortina estate.

- Doug

 

[Deleted member 8987]

Two or three reel-to-reels, an 8-track. Got a couple of VCR's....found one by accident in the CRT TV I had to fix in the front room a week or so ago.
Dial phones, vacuum tube radios, flathead Fords, manual chokes, column shift, crank windows, XP, .45ACP.
You know, the stuff that works every stinking time.

 

[JPSmit]

And, lets be clear, i have strong Luddite tendencies. But, every tool has a purpose. So, keeping in touch with my daughter is helpful, and, having the phone to connect with people like doc - priceless. At the same time, wanted to smack the family in the restaurant last night - 4 people in booth, each on their own device. Or the fellow in the "Sea Pavilion" at EPCOT - fellow checking Facebook with his back to the gorgeous aquarium.

 

[Shane]

Smartphones are becoming more and more useful, but they are also distracting and too easily accessible to use as a crutch. When we go to dinner with our friends, we stack all of our phones on the table...the first person to grab their phone, for whatever reason, picks up the tip. The conversations have seriously gotten more interesting when we're not rushing to the phone to be the first to google an answer. Novel idea, huh? Iron sharpening iron?

 

[PC]

Being a card-carrying electrogeek, I suppose I should be enamored with the latest technology and ready to get every new, cool thing as it comes out.

I'm not. In fact, I'm the latest of the "late adopters." I still don't have a smart phone, and .....

Totally with you you there. Let the other guy be the guinea pig for technology based on "because we can" and hold off until "it does a job better" comes along.

The other day my wireless carrier tried to sell me their "control everything" package. Just what I need, to command my lawn sprinklers and toaster oven over the internet with a smart phone (that I don't have).

Ironically, a little earlier in the day;

a) I was reading an article about how Stuxnet destroyed Iranian atomic centrifuges,

b) I dropped in on my Mom and the movie Transformers was on TV in the background. The seen came on where the evil boomboxbot jacked into the government network to download the info the baddies needed to take over the earth and doom humanity. The NSA geeks spotted the intrusion but couldn't stop it electronically so they had to yank the physical connections to stop it.

I told the wireless guy I'm not technology averse. I've spent decades building automated electronic equipment. There are some things best done manually.


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