I’m late to the party, as usual, but I’m participating in the 2014
Second Annual National Wormhole Week (or 2014 Wormfest): For 2014, the
theme is to name one thing where science advances mankind, and one where the
same technology with unforeseen consequences will go too far and set mankind
back.
This
hop is hosted by Stephen
Tremp, Alex
J. Cavanaugh, and L. Diane Wolfe
and the list of those participating is here.
Here
goes…One of the everyday things that has made the biggest impact on me, apart
from the calculator and cellular phone, is the television remote. That little
doodad has made life so easy that sometimes I amaze myself with the things I
do.
Have
you ever lost the remote and walk by the television time and again searching
for it, but don’t hit that ‘on’ button with your finger?
I
have.
With
all the advances we’ve made in technology, I sometimes think that our brains
are in danger of atrophying from disuse.
To think we used have to get up to change the channel. And remember those giant knobs? That if the knob came off, you had to use needlenose pliers to change the channels?
ReplyDeleteYes! I have done that. Although we did have a TV with a broken manual switch, so we had to find the remote for that one.
ReplyDeleteHahahaha! That's classic! See, this is why I have kids. (Son, go turn up the volume.) ;)
ReplyDeleteCrystal, my mother does that too. Yes the remote can make us lazy but it is so darn convenient. I always turn on the television with the button but everything else is remote control baby.
ReplyDeleteLove the poster.
ReplyDeleteJL, interesting point of advanced technology causing trophy. Maybe it's true, We Are All D-E-V-O.
ReplyDeleteI'm waiting to see an app for your phone for finding lost remotes...
ReplyDeleteWe have become button pushers for sure. I wonder if that could be related to pushing people's buttons? Hmmmmmm... :)
ReplyDeleteHopefully I'm better late than never here...
ReplyDeleteI couldn't agree more. It seems that techonological advancements that make our lives more convinient, are also slowing us down mentally.
Not all of us, but a lot of us are getting dumber...Was that too much?
Anyway, good post.