@edgarblythe,
Before reading this, I was expecting at least some, if not most of these things to be truly dreadful.
Many of these things are stuff we've only had in recent times anyway, and are being replaced by something better, i.e. cell phones over land lines.
Beauty is beauty, it will just come in different forms.
We have adapted from cave paintings to 3D movies, from foot messengers, to pony express, to posted mail, to email
We've gone from trading stones and metal for goods and services, to scribbling on a piece of paper, to clicking Send to electronically deduct from our bank accounts, which hold nothing tangible in any event. You don't have pieces of paper, or lint, or rocks in a specific place. You have a number, the idea of a amount that has been assigned to you.
edgarblythe wrote:
COMING CHANGES IN OUR LIVES ...!
1. The Post Office.
Good riddance, I say. Waste of paper and postage.
2. The Check.
There are about 3 or 4 things I have to write a check for every year. Each time I have to do it, I think I'd rather have to slit my throat. Sure there was a time when writing checks, adding postage, and letting the above antiquated post office take it out of your hands. Now I have to gird my loins to actually have to go through all that rigamarole. What a pain.
3. The Newspaper.
Another waste of paper, IMO
4. The Book.
I'm not familiar if libraries have a large amount of ebooks yet. When (not if) they do, I'll make the break from the page and invest in a kindle. I will create various covers for my kindle, some with Hello Kitty stickers, others with anything from pancakes to pictures of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. I will change the covers like some people change their avatars here.
5. The Land Line Telephone.
I don't know why I didn't drop my land line sooner.
Reyn, if you don't make a lot of calls, you buy an inexpensive t-mobile to go phone, and a refill card. The cards don't expire for a year, when you add minutes the entire balance rolls over and is good for another year.
If you never talk on the phone, and just want one for emergencies, you could theoretically get by on $10 a year. In reality, you'd probably spend $50 a year.
In general, if you're afraid there will be a national disaster, and only land lines will get service, I'm sorry you live in the middle of nowhere. I can't help that. Time was disasters happened and people didn't even have phones. Somehow those people survived long enough to produce us.
6. Music.
I have nothing to say about this
7. Television.
Pretty much ditto.
8. The "Things."
Most of things are shortly going to be of the sort we will roll our eyes about. The sort of things codgers say things like "back in MY day" about.
9. Privacy.
I'm not vain enough to think my goings on are that interesting to anyone. Anything I've done, only about a kabillion other people have already done.
