- Electric Screwdriver
- Digital Camera
- Digital Music
- Internet, Email
- On line Bill Pay (deserves its own entry)
- Cell Phone
- Computer Controlled Vehicle Engines. (anyone remember having to change
points/plugs/condenser every 10k miles or so)
- A host of other vehicle improvements that allows me to not have to get
under my car/truck for well over 100k miles, and not even then since I don’t
even do that anymore. (Now that I have all the tools I ever wanted, I have no
interest in using 75% of them...)
How about you?
Salk vaccine.
ReplyDeleteSabin vaccine.
Modern prosthetic limbs.
Heart surgery.
Collapsing steering column.
Home Air conditioning (cooling and heating).
Affordable electric power.
Natural gas distripution.
Larry, Good Stuff. I hadn't even thought of the medical. Yes, a lot of good things there for people who are challenged by everyday things. Great contribution.
DeleteI am a car guy. I like to dig into them when they fail, and make them purr again like a kitten.
ReplyDeleteA computer controlled engine is great when it is working well. When the computer goes down, it kills the car. When the points get fried in an old car, replacing them is easy.
I would consider the chips they put in cars nowadays as a mixed blessing. But certainly not on my Top 10 list.
Ok Fredd, Personally, I'm glad those leaning over the fender and cleaning my hands later with bleach and lye soap days are over. :)
Deleteused to love to take photos- now-w digital - no more--no on line bill pay- thinking of going back to an 'old fashioned flip phone- and--cars that tell me what to do while I am driving- NO!!
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C-CS, Understandable points there. But I like the technology. I mean, think of all the doofuses that are being removed from our midst just because you can text while you drive!
DeleteImproved air conditioning and digital cameras.
ReplyDeleteI've been weeding through boxes of my dad's old slides and many of them are so degraded, that it's not worth scanning them. Digital photos don't degrade, and with a bit of digital upgrading on storage will last longer than my dad's photos.
Euripides. I'm there. I've taken photo's on film and transferred to hard copy that are somewhere that I'd like to share. Damn if I can find them or that they'd even be worth a damn.
DeleteI'm growing fonder every day of the WALK-IN BATHTUB I had installed at great expense a few weeks ago.
ReplyDeleteIt's a godsend for an old, half-blind fellow subject to vertigo attacks like me, Now, I don't have to worry anymore about slipping and falling in the shower, and getting submerged once again in bubbling hot water is heaven.
BUT, as far as I'm concerned the world had reached a pinnacle of perfection in 1948. Most of the technical stuff that has come along since is more of a bane than a boon.
Technology may
Be as great as they say,
But it wouldn't be missed,
If it didn't exist.
FT, Once again, I neglected the physical assists for those challenged with everyday situations. Good point.
DeleteThanks, Kid.
DeleteDigital cameras, cell phones, the internet, email... I must admit I love their convenience. I love how Freethink sums it all up though: boon or bane? Food for thought.
ReplyDeleteCube, Yes, Einstein made some references to how human competence would dissipate as technology advanced. We can see that happening.
DeleteOh yes, I feel my college degree dissipating as we speak ;)
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