Ever noticed how quickly we start relying on things that we never needed before?
Our internet service provider at work was having a few issues today. Our connection to the outside world was out for the entire day. We had to try to find ways to work differently to get around the problem. A few years back an internet connection was a bit of a bonus in business. It was helpful but not essential. These days we’ve come to rely on that connection.
I’ve recently started wearing reading glasses and I was looking forward to getting through a few chapters of the book I’m reading at the moment when I got home last night. I was most of the way home when I realised that I’d left my glasses at work. That meant no reading at all. It’s another case of something that I really didn’t need even a year ago but is essential now.
Are there things that you can’t do without that a few years ago didn’t even exist? Have you become dependent on one form of technology or another?
I wonder what are the things haven’t been invented yet that we won’t be able to live without in ten years.
Posted by Rodney Olsen
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Cell phones come to mind. I almost panic now if I leave the house without my cell phone. It makes me feel cut off from the world!
Maybe you should get a second pair of reading glasses and keep one at home and one at work.
Yes, the reading glasses. I’m to the point now that I have multiple pair stashed in strategic locations for when I forget the ones that normally stay in my shirt pocket — except when on my face.