I guess I'm just old now and that's why things don't make sense to me any more. But, honestly I really can't see that nowadays as much improved compared to 20, 30, 40 or even 50 years ago. I had a pager instead of a cell phone in high school. Big deal! I even had a computer, printer, scanner, and Internet over 40 years ago. 42 years ago my friend's dad had a cell phone in his car.
There's nothing now that didn't exist back then. Sure, things are a little smaller and a little faster now. But, they are no longer simply and easy to use. Simple things have become stupidly complicated. For some reason Android on my cell phone wouldn't give me the option to answer the phone all of a sudden. I could see that someone was calling me but I couldn't answer it. WTF! I looked on the Internet to discover it is a common problem. Nice! So, I reset the phone, cleared all the temporary files, and for some reason I couldn't get the options to answer the phone to show up. So, I ended up changing a hard to find setting to allow pushing the menu button to answer the phone. So, you might say, it's time to get an old person's phone that is primarily just a phone. Well, I did that. Then I kept getting tons of texts and calls I didn't want that ate through all my minutes. The carrier wouldn't block them. So, I had to quite using the phone.
Even TVs are basically the same. They are just boxes with light shining through them. By now we should have mastered holographic imagery nearly to perfection. We tried to make a few 3D tvs. But they sucked and the manufactures stopped producing them because they sucked.
I purchased a virtually 3D headset hoping to experience the magic. It was cool to see the video appear right in front of my face for about 20 seconds. Then I started to feel a little dizzy. But, I pushed through it and after 20 minutes I had a nasty headache. It didn't immerse me into a different realm. They are crap! Seriously? That's the best we can do. I thought that maybe I should get the super high dollar unit until I read reviews that the early unit is actually better. Wow!
Things were built to last. Nowadays things don't last for honeysuckle. Then they end up in the trash make even more problems for us to deal with LATER. But, if we build things too well, like in the past, then people would be spending less money. That would be detrimental to our economy. After all approximately 70% of the US gross domestic product is us spending money. It's not creating products. Yeah, we appear to be doing well because we are circulating money. That's our product. But, wait, don't we just create US dollars out of thin air. Yep. So, isn't it all just a huge scam? It certainly is. But, hey, going off the gold standard in the past to a standard of nothing is much better right? Well, only as long as the other countries don't get together and stop the BS the US is doing. That's better now then before right?
We are still driving around the same basic vehicles with slight improvements. Really? Is Tesla really that great? They took early 80s technology, small lithium batteries which do not work well together in large numbers, and stacked tons of them together to power a motorized car. In order to make it work better they removed all the batteries safety features. If you use lithium batteries too much, drain them too fast, or they get too hot they explode and catch fire. Many Teslas have burned to the ground. Woohoo! Great technological improvement!
Batteries still really suck. We still can't store electricity for honeysuckle. Well, some old ways work for large production. Pumping water up to a lake on a hill during low power requirements and then letting it drain down to power turbines during high power times is still the top contender. Then there's super heating molten salt during the day to power steam generators at night.
How about our food? We keep screwing with it in order to feed more and more people. Most of the fruits and vegetables at the grocery stores taste like crap now. They are picked way before they are any where near ripe. Then they are sprayed with chemicals to keep them from rotting before we buy them not to mention the chemicals used to grow them. I have completely giving up on tomatoes and avocados. They go from unripe to rotten in one day.
The answer, according to most politicians, is to keep growing. We will just grow our way out of all of our problems. We can just keeping spending money we don't have if we just calculate that in such and suck year there will be XXXXXXX more people and $XXXXXX more money. So, if you bring those number back to current day we actually have $XXXXXX trillion that we aren't using right now. So, lets spend, spend, spend.
The family unit is being broken apart and more and more people are living the single life. It usually takes two working people to raise kids and get ahead now. The more educated people are having less children because they see how expensive kids are with the expenses continually increasing. The less educated and less intelligent people can't comprehend money, are continually given hand outs, and have as many kids as nature allows. This further burdens the slightly higher dollar earners to the point where having kids is too costly. Is that an improvement to our society?
Oh wait, porn and access to drugs has certainly improved greatly. So, I guess that's good right?
So, what do you guys think? Is today better then yesteryear or am I just old now and can't appreciated all the wonderful new stuff we all have now?
There's nothing now that didn't exist back then. Sure, things are a little smaller and a little faster now. But, they are no longer simply and easy to use. Simple things have become stupidly complicated. For some reason Android on my cell phone wouldn't give me the option to answer the phone all of a sudden. I could see that someone was calling me but I couldn't answer it. WTF! I looked on the Internet to discover it is a common problem. Nice! So, I reset the phone, cleared all the temporary files, and for some reason I couldn't get the options to answer the phone to show up. So, I ended up changing a hard to find setting to allow pushing the menu button to answer the phone. So, you might say, it's time to get an old person's phone that is primarily just a phone. Well, I did that. Then I kept getting tons of texts and calls I didn't want that ate through all my minutes. The carrier wouldn't block them. So, I had to quite using the phone.
Even TVs are basically the same. They are just boxes with light shining through them. By now we should have mastered holographic imagery nearly to perfection. We tried to make a few 3D tvs. But they sucked and the manufactures stopped producing them because they sucked.
I purchased a virtually 3D headset hoping to experience the magic. It was cool to see the video appear right in front of my face for about 20 seconds. Then I started to feel a little dizzy. But, I pushed through it and after 20 minutes I had a nasty headache. It didn't immerse me into a different realm. They are crap! Seriously? That's the best we can do. I thought that maybe I should get the super high dollar unit until I read reviews that the early unit is actually better. Wow!
Things were built to last. Nowadays things don't last for honeysuckle. Then they end up in the trash make even more problems for us to deal with LATER. But, if we build things too well, like in the past, then people would be spending less money. That would be detrimental to our economy. After all approximately 70% of the US gross domestic product is us spending money. It's not creating products. Yeah, we appear to be doing well because we are circulating money. That's our product. But, wait, don't we just create US dollars out of thin air. Yep. So, isn't it all just a huge scam? It certainly is. But, hey, going off the gold standard in the past to a standard of nothing is much better right? Well, only as long as the other countries don't get together and stop the BS the US is doing. That's better now then before right?
We are still driving around the same basic vehicles with slight improvements. Really? Is Tesla really that great? They took early 80s technology, small lithium batteries which do not work well together in large numbers, and stacked tons of them together to power a motorized car. In order to make it work better they removed all the batteries safety features. If you use lithium batteries too much, drain them too fast, or they get too hot they explode and catch fire. Many Teslas have burned to the ground. Woohoo! Great technological improvement!
Batteries still really suck. We still can't store electricity for honeysuckle. Well, some old ways work for large production. Pumping water up to a lake on a hill during low power requirements and then letting it drain down to power turbines during high power times is still the top contender. Then there's super heating molten salt during the day to power steam generators at night.
How about our food? We keep screwing with it in order to feed more and more people. Most of the fruits and vegetables at the grocery stores taste like crap now. They are picked way before they are any where near ripe. Then they are sprayed with chemicals to keep them from rotting before we buy them not to mention the chemicals used to grow them. I have completely giving up on tomatoes and avocados. They go from unripe to rotten in one day.
The answer, according to most politicians, is to keep growing. We will just grow our way out of all of our problems. We can just keeping spending money we don't have if we just calculate that in such and suck year there will be XXXXXXX more people and $XXXXXX more money. So, if you bring those number back to current day we actually have $XXXXXX trillion that we aren't using right now. So, lets spend, spend, spend.
The family unit is being broken apart and more and more people are living the single life. It usually takes two working people to raise kids and get ahead now. The more educated people are having less children because they see how expensive kids are with the expenses continually increasing. The less educated and less intelligent people can't comprehend money, are continually given hand outs, and have as many kids as nature allows. This further burdens the slightly higher dollar earners to the point where having kids is too costly. Is that an improvement to our society?
Oh wait, porn and access to drugs has certainly improved greatly. So, I guess that's good right?
So, what do you guys think? Is today better then yesteryear or am I just old now and can't appreciated all the wonderful new stuff we all have now?