We’ve moved beyond the individual fix, and now we’re collectively reliant on a group of technical savants to rejig our proverbial rabbit ears in the sky.
Even more than that, we haven’t built in “old-fashioned” redundancies because we’ve deemed them unnecessary.Article content
I don’t know about you, but I can’t remember the last time I had cold, hard cash in my physical wallet. I spoke to several people last week who were emptying piggybanks to buy a cup of coffee. And I was reminded of my dad’s advice when I was a teenager: always have a $20 bill somewhere on your person … just in case. I’ll be doing that from now on.
Remember when you could plunk a quarter into a payphone? Or, worse come to worst, make a collect call? I can’t recall the last time I saw one of these formerly ubiquitous pieces of infrastructure. The same is true for a phone book made of actual paper, or a rotary dial you can plug into a jack. I’m not suggesting we should turn back the clock, but I am feeling nostalgia for simpler times.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
Maybe these mini-trials and tribulations built up a bit of resiliency. They forced us to find creative solutions and I’m convinced we had more free time. Now, when our technology — as miraculous as it is — fails us on a grand scale, we throw up our hands and post memes … because there is literally nothing else we can do.
I don’t have the solution, and I certainly don’t want to return to the days of three channels and perpetual busy signals . But for the record, I could get by without auto-correct.Suzanne Westover
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