You right. I don’t need to argue. I will elaborate, if that’s OK.
So radios:
I love the old am/fms super neat. Come in all shapes and sizes. By the time I was oldenough, though, they had “boom boxes”. Boom box wanted to give you speakers that you could blast through the house, CD tray, cassette player, cassette recorder, microphone jack. I’m more then happy to trade in the boom box for a phone and set of Bluetooth headphones.
Calculators:
The times you need a calculator you don’t have one. If you did, it was garbage. No one’s packing a ti-87 all day everyday. Not to say there wasn’t really nice pocket calculators, just i never got much use out of them.
Landline:
Miss them. Have memories of using my grandparents rotary phone. Just, by the time I was old enough, no point in having two phones. At least for me.
I’m not looking to argue either, I’m just trying to share how I see things, so this feels more like a discussion to me.
I mean yeah, I don’t think anyone can argue against the convenience of modern technology. I just think we’d be fine without smartphones.
Instead of a boom box or a radio (which weren’t really meant to be portable anyways) you could use an mp3 player, by now they’d probably have Bluetooth as well.
I know some people who carry around dedicated calculators despite having a smartphone, so I think if you need it somewhat regularly, you’d just have it with you. And if you don’t have it with you, your calculations are probably not that important and urgent, so you could do them at home if necessary.
Regarding landlines, there’s barely any situation where I feel the need to contact someone right in that moment, so a landline with a voicemail would be fine most of the time.
Long story short, all I’m trying to say is that smartphones have replaced a lot of things that were fine, not just alarm clocks, and I don’t see why they ‘deserved it the least’. I do understand that I can’t expect a shower thought to go that deep though.
so were radios, calculators, landline phones etc
You right. I don’t need to argue. I will elaborate, if that’s OK.
So radios:
I love the old am/fms super neat. Come in all shapes and sizes. By the time I was oldenough, though, they had “boom boxes”. Boom box wanted to give you speakers that you could blast through the house, CD tray, cassette player, cassette recorder, microphone jack. I’m more then happy to trade in the boom box for a phone and set of Bluetooth headphones.
Calculators:
The times you need a calculator you don’t have one. If you did, it was garbage. No one’s packing a ti-87 all day everyday. Not to say there wasn’t really nice pocket calculators, just i never got much use out of them.
Landline:
Miss them. Have memories of using my grandparents rotary phone. Just, by the time I was old enough, no point in having two phones. At least for me.
I’m not looking to argue either, I’m just trying to share how I see things, so this feels more like a discussion to me.
I mean yeah, I don’t think anyone can argue against the convenience of modern technology. I just think we’d be fine without smartphones.
Instead of a boom box or a radio (which weren’t really meant to be portable anyways) you could use an mp3 player, by now they’d probably have Bluetooth as well.
I know some people who carry around dedicated calculators despite having a smartphone, so I think if you need it somewhat regularly, you’d just have it with you. And if you don’t have it with you, your calculations are probably not that important and urgent, so you could do them at home if necessary.
Regarding landlines, there’s barely any situation where I feel the need to contact someone right in that moment, so a landline with a voicemail would be fine most of the time.
Long story short, all I’m trying to say is that smartphones have replaced a lot of things that were fine, not just alarm clocks, and I don’t see why they ‘deserved it the least’. I do understand that I can’t expect a shower thought to go that deep though.
No, like I said to start. You’re right. Thanks for sharing your perspective with me.
Thank you for doing the same :)