My how things have changed!!

...and to consider that the rate of change is accelerating as new developments spur still more new developments.

Though I have worked in the technology segment for many years, I have not lost the ability to be amazed at such things as 512GB storage on a part the size of the nail on my pinky (SDXC micro SD card) as well as the rate at which the prices on these things are dropping. That is but one obvious example of the (to me) amazing developments, and this particular example is now commonplace. So now you can have a tiny MP3 player that costs only a few dollars that holds the entire content of a large music collection of many thousands of tunes.

Tony
 
There's a saying "as soon as you buy it it is out of date." I don't buy in to the tech add-ons in vehicles mainly because I don't need them and second, if you keep the vehicle for 10+years it will all be outdated if not useless.
 
fmdog44 said:
There's a saying "as soon as you buy it it is out of date." I don't buy in to the tech add-ons in vehicles mainly because I don't need them and second, if you keep the vehicle for 10+years it will all be outdated if not useless.
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That is one advantage in my 2000 Toyota Echo. No power locks, no power windows, very little to go wrong. I bought it when it was 4 years old and there has been no unusual or large repairs needed - just regular maintenance, the occasional battery replacement, and a brake job at 160k miles. It just takes me from point A to point B and back at minimal cost. I would be lost in a sea of technology if I had to buy another car these days. I am hoping that this car will be my last.

Tony
 
wasn't it exciting when each of those things came into our lives & homes. Not so much when we got rid of them again. All that stuff on my phone with lots of space left over.
I get you, Tony! I recently took my 2000 Outback in for some lengthy service. Was offered a loaner car but declined. So long since I drove any “late models” I didn’t think I’d be safe taking it on my own.
 
Ron, sweet husband that he is, bought me a new Ford Escape and I have to say, even as much as I have eschewed all the “modern” conveniences, it took me no time at all to get comfortable with the remote start, seat warmers and lane ...er...I can’t remember the terminology but the stuff that keeps you in your lane!! Man I love that stuff!! 💕👍🤩
 
Other than the down sizing I saw a lot of this stuff 54 years ago while serving in the Army. Very limited but we had a little micro circuitry in our gun systems on the helicopters and it was very small with the exception of the main controller which was the size of a small Samsonite overnight case, painted black and it rode behind me in the small battery compartment. The small things were in the console up front like the gun selectors and rocket select switches. Now those took up no more than the exact size of a modern DVD drive.
 
I wonder if the people who were designing that whole Strict Search thing didn't just think it would be funny to type in Strip Search instead. Some guy at Microsoft is getting quite a chuckle over that I'm sure.
 
yes one day i was surfing for profile pics and clicked on an innocent picture of a woman on a park bench that took me to a porn site. i was not amused.
 
The older technology was not without its charms. Working summer jobs in factories in the early 1970's, almost every worker had a bulky, am/fm radio at their job station to help their dreary day pass more quickly. The units plugged in or ran on batteries, sported a carrying handle, could take considerable abuse, and had a speaker capable of cutting through the factory din. You'd be hard pressed to find such a utilitarian, stand-alone radio today...
 
Fyrefox said:
You'd be hard pressed to find such a utilitarian, stand-alone radio today.
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Yeah.

The replacement of an ear bud playing music is a lot less bulky and doesn’t drown out the neighbor’s music 😉
 

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