Technology

Doors - technology features and product reviews from The Sunday Times:

"Am I the only one who thinks that we are all gullible mugs, caught in some great technology trap? No sooner has the latest miracle device burst onto the market than it is replaced by a shinier, faster version. Within months, the state-of-the-art gizmo on which we splashed out hundreds of pounds is considered to be obsolete. My mobile has a two-megapixel camera built in? Yours has a four-meg camera? Well, his has satnav on board and an integrated MP3 player. We can’t win."


This article not only says it all, it says it well. It honestly and openly confronts the issues we all have with technology these days. We were talking about this very thing this week. It's not that we wish to avoid progress. It's not that we wish to stem the flow of technological breakthoughs. We need some sanity in it. We are tired of all this "new" stuff which we have piled up, which we cannot recycle because the connections have changed, the gadget has changed or the technology is now obsolete...not long after we just bought it. We cannot carry on like this. We'll go along with the video change because once you see DVDs you know videos are very poor quality sound and imaging. Many of us have collections of visual and sound materials but our collections are being threatened. If they change the format again or want us to download it as a user pays thing off the Net, one we shall not have our beloved collections and two, we'll be shelling out again for copies of our beloved films and soundtracks. This is really annoying us. The MP3 players have been picked up and most people love them. We all bought big TVs and now it looks like there's a push to have us get gigantic TVs. Phones keep changing...and I am not going to complain about my new cruisy laptop...but you can see computer things are changing again.

Don't know about where you live, but there has been a real upsurge in board games here. Can't think why!

The other problem is most gadgets are multifunction and okay you can have an Fdisk which is an MP3 player as well or a phome with games and a radio or a games box which plays DVDs as well or a separate DVD player. We are getting swamped with combos and choices and we are going nuts. Some people buy gadgets and don't use half the functions. Some do not even know the functions exist on their gadgets. We are constantly made to feel inept or inadequate. One friend copes with it by renewing nothing until he absolutely has to, so he is running with some ancient technology but he's happy, spends his money on OS trips and is laughing at the rest of us trying to come up to speed with functions!

Read the article and if it doesn't apply to you , you are lucky to be one of the new up there, very in geeks who have now become must haves in any social circle. The techno debriefers.