GRUMP TIME - Just because you can...
Remember the days when you used to sit in a friend’s car on a wet Sunday afternoon, waving a cheap transistor radio around, poking other passengers in the eye with the aerial as you tried to hunt down the best signal so you can all listen to ‘the game’?What about more recently, when you'd struggle with those tiny televisions, again, playing rotating and contorting yourself in order to see the movie you'd been banned from watching - often in bed, under the covers and long after you’re supposed to be asleep?
Technology is meant to be progressive, yet you're still watching a (possibly illegally) downloaded copy of a blockbuster movie, designed to be watched on a wall the size of the Hoover Dam, on a smartphone with a screen the size of a Post-It note.
There are apps for so many things - too many things in my view - which we get wrapped up in what we can do with our device:
• I can use it instead of my spirit level
• I can use it instead of my egg timer
• I can calculate the azimuth of this planet, the albedo of that star whilst rating the cuteness of people’s kittens on a scale of 1 to 10
• I can turn it into a fake Star Trek Tricorder, Doctor Who’s Sonic Screwdriver or hide my
So why do we (hypothetically, in my case (ehem)) do it?
Just because we can…!
Comments (29)
At least Grumpy's got a face ..
Mind you..I could always use it as a flash light?
and some people would get some answers wrong
Did you do the laundry Grumps?
NO MORE COLOUR CHANGES!!!!
@Seri - no food this time. I was too busy eating to write about it too.
@Moll - Baby!
How else can you fast forward the dialogue?
Technology is meant to be progressive of course. But right now it's progressing towards dumbing down the human brain. Most probably our brains will be obsolete very soon. We will be hooked up on to some device, telling us our stomach is empty and it's time to eat, or our bladder is full and it's time to pass.
Hopefully it doesn't happen in my time as I don't like to be told what to do.
Nope! I don't think it is just because we can.
It's Just because we are foolish enough to make use of every little luxury, they tell us is a luxury that only stresses us more.
You used a colour for your blog and see the stress you have to deal with.
So it's not just because we can, but just because we chose to.
I often say that the phones are getting smarter whilst the owners are getting dumber. I'm happy to meet someone who thinks the same way.
In fairness to the others, the first colour was dayglo and the second poster was just being a minx, I think.
I've got something to add to your last comment to me but on second thought, better not!!
I know her, Intrigued. She is Debbie from Ontario, Canada
@ Lou My smartphone is set to stop notifying me after 10pm. I'm kinda paid to be available, but there is a limit...
@ Molls - How many time? Multiple PERSONALITIES!
Now you must sing me your rendition of 'Stonehenge' and dance around a 12" monolith!
I need a draught excluder for the dog kennel
It's been blocked longer than I care to admit