Hi-tech

I am sick of hi-tech. Everything is being taken over by hi-tech. Can't even get a damn theater ticket unless it is shown on the cell phone. What happened to the good old fashioned paper tickets? What if I am an old person who has no cell phone? Then I can not go to a theater?

Kids in schools are taught by using internet and cell phones. Answers to every academic question can be found on the internet. When tests are taken online from home they are using the internet for "unofficial assistance". Kids do not learn how to do manual calculations anymore. If it is not on the internet they don't know it.

Everything is now based on computers and high-tech. Pretty soon doctors will just feed a patient's symptoms into a computer and voila, there is the diagnosis. Oh, and all that can be done from home, no more office visits. If that is not already done. Imagine somebody finds himself in an abandoned island and in order to survive must do some manual calculations or medical stuff. No computer, no help. He can eat grass until found!

As an apropos. Wednesday for God knows why our internet stopped working. It worked earlier in the day but later for unknown reasons it stopped. We were totally lost without it. Finally, I called the cable company and they eventually put it back in service. When something like this happens you are at their mercy. If they want to fix it they will if not you are out of luck.

I am not against progress, but to "outlaw" good old approved systems is just not right.