I understand the much older amongst us not embracing the smartphone but, they are a fantastic tool if used to its potential. I've sat talking with my son who was working in OZ for a year whilst he sat next to Sydney harbour bridge whilst panning his smartphone round for me and his mum to view the new year fireworks all this displayed on my TV for us to watch via my smartphone relayed to the TV in our living room or is it lounge. The technology involved is just staggering to behold when you come from an age ( like most of us olduns) where the mobile phone and the WWW did not exist until much later in our lives.
I haven't been to a bank in 10 years. All my payments and transfers are done on my phone, hell I even pay for my groceries using my phone I often marvel at how far and fast technology has changed our lives. I've had an advantage actually working in the technology sector but even now I'm dumbfounded at the pace it just keeps rolling on.
But the best invention of all in the technology realm (in my view) is the creation of the WWW. An invention that spreads knowledge around the globe that the layman would never have been aware of let alone have access to. The WWW has allowed billions to see what the world is like outside of their own countries and realise maybe that their leaders are telling them one or two porkies ... Knowledge is power . Power to the people
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
The trouble is, you need to be able to tell the knowledge from the lies and the liars are getting more and more clever. You never hear about bank raids anymore because the thieves can do it from their bedroom in their pyjamas.
No smart-phone here, Hubby doesnt have any kind of mobile phone at all. The only reason I ended up with one, was when we moved here the previous owners had passed away, there was no landline, I walked to the phone box about 30 seconds away, to discover it was emergency calls only, our insurance company had messed up, grudgingly bought a nockia.Even 10 years ago, when ordering stuff on-line, companies insisted on a mobile number,my oldest said to use all nines, then that stopped working, they always say its because they are going to text you when your order is coming, nope, never happens, like 3 things from Amazon this week, which all cam several days before they e-mailed me and told me they were coming.My oldest daughter told me the other day, if I had a smart phone I could have sat nav and be advised of road works. I can read a map, thanks, and as the A27/A22 works are going on for 2 years, I think I can remember.
I do not have a mobile phone either, never have, never will despite working in IT support for many years.
There are a multitude of reasons for that decision but the one I like best is the day an advert for that Magic & Sparkle shop appeared on my daughter's phone after she had a conversation about said retailer with her sister. Not on her phone but in person, clearly within range of the microphone though.
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
My phone constantly runs out of charge because I don't need to feel constantly available. It's a tool - not my master -I hope. When I signed up for Facebook many years ago, I told them my DoB was the date I'd joined. I got several adverts for nappies😊 I'm assuming, I don't get any of the risqué content - me being so young an all
For years I was told I was the only person on the planet without a mobile phone, Steve Tyler has only ever had a basic nockia. People ask how I keep in touch, and what do I do in an emergency, what kind I wonder!!Seems to me as soon as you get one, the next model is all ready out, new, better,improved version, (more expensive!!) so much to go wrong.
Police attacked as they try to close down massive parties. Out with the water cannon to dampen the high spirits! With no repercussions, these things will just keep happening.
Complete change of subject: OH has been doing well at golf lately and in the last 3 competitions has won vouchers for meals out for a couple and, today, for a family as he came first.
My curmudge? They're for McDonald's!
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
We were in the middle of the Ashdown Forest in a storm and the car was playing up. We got a phone the next day. One of those old rubber coated nokia phones that could bounce. The best phone I had was a fold up one - were they called oysters? They did everything you'd really need and the screen was protected from damage.
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I haven't been to a bank in 10 years. All my payments and transfers are done on my phone, hell I even pay for my groceries using my phone I often marvel at how far and fast technology has changed our lives. I've had an advantage actually working in the technology sector but even now I'm dumbfounded at the pace it just keeps rolling on.
But the best invention of all in the technology realm (in my view) is the creation of the WWW. An invention that spreads knowledge around the globe that the layman would never have been aware of let alone have access to. The WWW has allowed billions to see what the world is like outside of their own countries and realise maybe that their leaders are telling them one or two porkies ...
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw'
You never hear about bank raids anymore because the thieves can do it from their bedroom in their pyjamas.
There are a multitude of reasons for that decision but the one I like best is the day an advert for that Magic & Sparkle shop appeared on my daughter's phone after she had a conversation about said retailer with her sister. Not on her phone but in person, clearly within range of the microphone though.
When I signed up for Facebook many years ago, I told them my DoB was the date I'd joined. I got several adverts for nappies😊
I'm assuming, I don't get any of the risqué content - me being so young an all
My curmudge? They're for McDonald's!
The best phone I had was a fold up one - were they called oysters? They did everything you'd really need and the screen was protected from damage.