- telephone
- computer
- walkman
- digital camera
- video camera
- diary
- egg timer
- alarmclock
- stopwatch
- clock/watch
- tape recorder
- address book
- diary
- notepad paper & pencil
- gameboy
- Newspapers/books/encylopaedia
Of course there are limitations to reading a large web page on a postage stamp sized screen but for email it is truly excellent.
In a flash my world changed - "what a difference a day makes"
With a solar charger a host of umbilical wires are severed for ever.
Wonders like these are not repaired any longer but replaced by the upgrade - with TV for example.
Legions of telephone engineers and film processing labs have slipped into history to join the ostlers and wheelwrights.
Released from the shackles of repairable,wired equipment we are now totally at the mercy of the robotic factories of China.
My father built his radios, I assembled my computers but no longer! The circuits in these "machines" are currently one tenth the thickness of a hair. Hardly built, more like printed - layers of stencils allow the components to be "sprayed on" often only an atom thick!
The mind boggles!
We humans are out of the loop. We cannot go back and certainly not forward.
At this point in history we are marooned on the traffic island of technology unable to get back to where we were or to do anything about it ever again.
The thumbs of babes and sucklings once removed from their mouths rapidly text on a dozen keys instead of the 104 keys of the now totally obsolete querty keyboard. But soon even this will pass away leaving only voice and picture links.
What next I wonder?
