One idle afternoon this week, I finished the Kindle book I was reading so as usual I logged onto the Amazon website, selected another and downloaded it. Something Mrs H and I do all the time, along with a vast number of other Kindle readers.
My phone was on the table by my chair, so it gave the ping sound as an Amazon confirmatory email arrived. As usual.
For some reason it suddenly struck me how remarkable the technology has become.
Finish a book –
select another from the vast online repository –
buy it –
ping goes the email app –
start reading the new book.
Next time I probably won’t notice how remarkable the technology is.
Finish a book –
select another from the vast online repository –
buy it –
ping goes the email app –
start reading the new book.
Next time I probably won’t notice how remarkable the technology is.
As usual.
4 comments:
The very best technology is hardly visible...
You are asleep during technologically wonderful surgery.
People park their cars outside their garage (junk and garden stuff) because cars don't rust in the rain any more.
Dentists can provide a custom shaped new crown in a single visit.
Lenses for glasses are automatically measured and then manufactured out of hi-refractive plastic.
Shame that the Government makes such a hash of technology though.
DJ - government seems to be dragged along by technology instead of making the best use of it. Everything has to be more complex than necessary and never as complete as it could be.
I think the same about food. You select some food on your phone, then someone knocks on the door and they've brought you food
It's pretty awesome
Bucko - ready cooked too.
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