Remember When......

[PRBuzz]

Just shows how much of an interconnected world we live in.....way back (if you really want to remember when) it took over a month to get news from one side of the US to the other, damn slow ponies!

[FishermanTim]

We live in an OVERconnected society.
We expect instant updates, instant gratification and instant results.
We get mad if we have to wait a munite for minute rice, instant coffee is too slow, and the new mantra is "If you wanted to get it sooner, you should have done it yesterday!"
We live in such a drastically overconnected world that we don't even have time to make a telephone call. We can't even take the time to spell out our conversation, let alone spell it correctly. We have driven ourselves up against a wall of technology, and if that technology should ever fail, we will be doomed. No one knows how to actually "do" anything these days.....They have a "app" for it so they don't have to know "how" to do it, they just push a button.

I may be starting to look like a dinosaur to me neices and nephews, but I do know how to do a lot of "manual" things, and they are fun, entertaining, and don't cost an arm and a leg. Even better, there isn't a new edition being released every year (or so) so I don't have to upgrade whatever. I almost seem to welcome power failures, because then I am in control.
No tv, no Iphone, no Ipad, no video games, no electronic distractions whatsoever. Aaahhh, total bliss!

[Raven]

but people who didn't grow up with it
i'm speaking now about cursive writing....

they have no idea what the squiggles mean in some instances
let alone even know how to write with a pen and make them

it all has no meaning in the digital texting age....

or watch a novice try to use a spade
and he'll have it broken within 30 minutes or less

then instead of saying we'll go get another HANDLE
they will just buy a brand new one and break that one

[justplugit]

Originally Posted by FishermanTim

No tv, no Iphone, no Ipad, no video games, no electronic distractions whatsoever. Aaahhh, total bliss!

I see all these people texting and on the cell
phone 24/7 and wonder when do they get any peace.
It's crazy, their life is consumed by chatter.

Except for a computer and cell phone i keep in the car for emergencies,
i got nothin.
Take time to smell the roses, life is too short.