Comments on: No Personal Jet Packs Yet, But Still

By: Laurie Sanders

Laurie Sanders — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 14:56:20 +0000

Could we, if we really, really, really had to live without technology. I suppose. We could go back to riding horses where we need to go…and washing our clothes on washboards in the river…and growing our food in backyard garden plots…

But, there are a few gadgets that I’d find it really hard to give up. I NEED my Garmin….without it, I get lost…a lot.

I like my Android phone and all of its many functions. I like that wherever I am I can get the weather forecast and temperature. I like that I can carry more books than I could read in a month on it and have them all at my fingertips wherever I am that I have a spare minute.

I am a geek at heart and love technology…except when it fails to function as it is supposed to…

I’m sure we could live without some of our technology…but I’m sure glad we don’t have to.

By: CindyS

CindyS — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 12:14:18 +0000

I haven’t jumped onto the techno wagon for e-books or bought an iPad yet. Hubby and I figure there are bugs to be worked out and we’re hopeful that as things progress, the price of tablets will come down to earth.

Now as a person who hates getting ‘trapped’ on a phone, e-mail was the best invention ever. (I had a friend who could talk easily for 3 hours – my arms used to go numb – then I would have to pretend something dangerous fell on a dog, or that hubby needed me or something.)

And finally, as someone not exactly running around in the real world, the virtual world has let me meet so many wonderful people who really know me because I wasn’t going to pretend online. And wonders of wonders they still like me!

Now, I really do want a robot to cook me dinner – or someone who won’t charge me an arm and a leg. My Mom stopped cooking for me when I married 15 years ago. Damn I took that for granted!

CindyS

By: AARPat

AARPat — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 19:09:59 +0000

A few years back I coveted one of the photo tables that looked like an ordinary coffee table but was actually a computer that could download the pictures from a camera by just setting a digital camera on it, act as a Skype screen, become a gaming table, etc. etc. I’m not sure what happened to that technology–there were predictions of $5,000 and up price tag. But looking at what some people spend for gigantic flat screen TVs, the techno coffee table wasn’t all that outrageous. But what happened to it, I wonder. Wish I knew.

Jane, a cocoa crisis is definitely a crisis. My husband is part of California’s Air Quality staff, but I think he better work on curing the cocoa crisis instead of assuring clean air.

By: MaryK

MaryK — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 19:04:03 +0000

But all the tablets are concepts. *whine* I want my perfect tablet now!

Crap, I honestly don’t know what I’d do without chocolate.

By: Jane AAR

Jane AAR — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 16:11:04 +0000

A few months back there was news of a cocoa crisis that definitely put me in the mind if In Death. They said that, unless cocoa plantations start growing it sustainably and responsibly, in 30 years chocolate will be a luxury item like caviar. And, what do you know, that’s what it is in In Death — everything is synthetic, except for the uber-rich like Roarke.

By: Diana

Diana — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:13:30 +0000

Where do I sign up to be notified immediately when the autochef is available? Oh, and the heated drying tube.

By: Blythe

Blythe — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:03:03 +0000

Alright…but I draw the line at calling lipstick “lip dye”. I’m sticking with the classic on that one.

By: Leigh AAR

Leigh AAR — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 13:42:40 +0000

Well, we could do without everything except my kindle.

It is always a challenge for me when the electricity goes out, and almost everything quits working (which it has done twice this past week for almost 12 hours).

You are so right about the emotions, but I do think that it has certainly changed the way we live. One of the things I notice most is that kids don’t play like I used to do. I rarely see them riding their bikes, or playing any type of ball.
Now they are inside with their game boys, x box 360, and wii.