we live in a digital age .... NOT!

[Blind-Sided]

............. I live and work in New York, not the least 'technologically advanced' of the states in the US. ........ But all work just as well or better with phone or fax and can easily be done with snail mail or in person...................But I find most medical practices and certainly the courts usually require paper, though fax is an acceptable alternative.

 

 

OK... hypocrite alert. (sorry to be blunt)

 

 

1) NY has had the most "Connected" infrastructure in western civilization!! Before the internet ruled the world... do you not realize how much "Data" was coming into that city to make it go? They had thousands of wires coming into the stock exchange to make second-by-second changes to the value of every public company in the USA. This was basically analogue internet, with hundreds of people reading ticker-tape. And the rich people had a hard line with a ticker-tape machine in their homes or office to watch their own stocks.

 

 

2) NO... today's biz is not just as well done with snail-mail. Going back to NYC, they had personal couriers to QUICKLY deliver physical documents between large companies. Not to mention... FedEx made it's business on overnight deliveries. (FYI Founded 1971) Sure... they now have fright and standard services... but that's not want made them. Going back into the 80's... my dad would use FedEx for important stuff, and UPS for 2~3 day, and USPS for non-critical things. I remember all of those tubes, and large cardboard envelopes in his office. (Next to a TRS80 computer and audio coupler to dial into Compusurve, and I could play Zork On-Line LOL)

 

 

3) Even if you are paying for a "Hard Line" phone into your house... it's most likely not a real hard line. It's still cell, or VOiP. I personally killed my house phone 10 years ago. It's less reliable than Cell these days, and the prices are going up.

 

 

4) The FAX... well... it's internet and data these days too. I have a physical fax in my office, but it's digital. It scans the documents, digitizes them... sends a copy to my email, and then to whatever number, or email it needs to go to.

 

 

You can have your beliefs, and it's nice to think about the days in the past... but the reality is... the world runs in a digital era. Noting you touch, in a "Public" domain is analogue any longer. (except snail-mail)

Edited November 12, 2019 by Blind-Sided

[Michelle ma Belle]

Pros and cons to all of it.

 

I'm 50 and pride myself on being both very progressive as well as old fashioned.

 

I can't say that I don't enjoy nor take advantage of the conveniences afforded us thanks to technology and the digital age...like online shopping, etc. I actually love that part of it.

 

What I can't stand is how technology has changed how people communicate with one another in general. That is what I can do without.

[Tamfana]

Dude in 100 BC: "Man, I don't understand the point of this whole newfangled writing thing. We were going along just fine with smoke signals and talking face to face. No one NEEDS writing....".

 

Oh you! Some of us oldsters like to rail against stuff just cuz we feel a curmudgeonly duty as oldsters to rail. As Boomers we remember being the young turks and the embracers of the future long long ago in a universe at least psychologically far far away.

[Shining One]

It's less reliable than Cell these days, and the prices are going up.

How is cellular service more reliable than a POTS (plain old telephone system) line?

[chillii]

Well , l'm looking around for another car atm , and l tell ya, l just wish to hell there was an older computer and sensor free fkg car out there l really liked that suits my job and lifestyle.

Just a simple bloody car , turn the key, starts,no computers and sensors telling it to do anything.

God almighty so far l've had to change plans three times.

Every one l come up with , so read up, gets some serious computer related bs common problem.

One make people have had to replace the whole auto, just because of some built in computer thing the starts giving the auto the wrong messages and the the gears just won't bloody work and the only way is to replace the whole auto, which costs half the price of the damn car and the new auto will probably start doing the same thing anyway.

Anther one reads the suspension and adjusts it as you drive,it goes wrong and drops one front corner of the car and the other 3 stay normal and they'll never be able to fix it without again a whole new system.

Others the fuels system cracks it, l mean wtf was wrong with a carby, others the whole car stops because it's all ran by so many sensors they can't track down which damn one is stopping the car.

Another model gets stuck in limp mode, whatever the hell that is , and it'll only drive at 20km an hour , 10 mechanics still can't fix it.

Another model the anti theft kicks in, no one can get it running, read 6 people car been sitting in their garage mths, won't start, can't sell it can't fix it.

 

So far every car l've been thinking about has some really bad common computer fault of some sort or other, if your lucky you get a good one but just throw your money away if you don't, it's bloody madness. Many have spent months and months, sometimes 6mths, sitting at the garage . Some been told to just come pick it up they can't fix it. It's effg crazy.

Edited November 12, 2019 by chillii