would our world be much simpler if...?

Question

Wouldn't our world be much simpler if these things did not exist today?

Computers/Internet (Read books if you want information! Also, you won't have to worry about your kids talking to weirdos in chat rooms & message boards)

Cordless Phones (Remember when Telephones had a cord?)

Cell Phones (Aren't these stupid bills just rediculous?)

Microwaves (EAT YOUR FOOD WHILE IT'S WARM!)

Digital Cable (We can only have 4 channels. NBC, CBS, ABC, and that's about it, lol!)

TiVo (Freezing TV is insane! Pretty soon we'll have the power to time travel)

DVD Players/VCRs (You can watch 166 mm/8mm movies instead)

CDs/Cassettes (How about if only Records existed?)

Ipods (Wanna listen to music? Listen to it at home! Not at school)

Video Games (NO PS2 or X Box)

Can't think of anything else.

Rap Music (No violence)

School Dress Codes (Nobody can make fun of anyone)

Answer 1

Yes, most definetly because of all of this technology there is no room for creativity, independence, or exercise. I want things to go back to a time where kids and teenagers (like me) could walk around town with their friends and be safe. Teenagers had more freedom and learned to grow up and be independent at an earlier age. I love the 1950's and 1960's because life was generally easier. People didn't stay online for hours, talk on the phone all day, and watch tv for hours they got up and went out if they wanted to have fun or hang with friends. When I do projects for school I go to the library not to the computer for my information. I am an underprivledged teenager living in a more slum type neighborhood and school is hard for me. People make fun of me because I don't wear the latest fashions, don't have a cell phone, don't have an ipod, and love music from Elvis. I don't want an ipod or a cell phone I like the way I live. I hang out with my friends every afternoon, am a A student, and when I graduate I am going to stay in my neighborhood and live my life here. I am content with a life without lots of technology.

Everyone should live this way because I am happier than the kids at my shcool who are worried when they don't have the right outfit for a dance, or lost cellphone privileges, or missed their favorite tv show. I wake up everymorning to a bell (old fashioned) alarmclock. I walk to school. In the afternoon after homework I meet my friends and we steal a beer from our house and go to the movies or a park and just talk and hangout. Then I go home and eat dinner and go to bed. I have a simple happy life. Is your life that simple and happy?


P.S. I am 17 and just got my first computer so I am exploring. If you have any info on computers tell me. Please.

Answer 2

Well yes you could read a book, but I guess you'd have to use magic to search through the books to find exactly what you want. And books can't automatically be updated if they're incorrect or lacking further information. Also it's more difficult to use a card catalogue than it to use google.

What's wrong with cordless phones that makes them so difficult? Perhaps the fact that you aren't tethered to the wall like a prisoner to a rock?

Cellphone bills today are much lower than ever, unless you use T-Mobile than you're paying far more than you really need to.

Well Microwaves have been around since the 1950s, and why do you assume it's only for reheating food, not say, cooking it in the first place? I guess you'd rather wait 25 minutes instead of 4 to eat something.

Digital Cable isn't that necessary, I agree, but you obviously don't realize there's basic cable as well, generally about 60 channels, and UHF isn't broadcasted very well anymore, and most TVs don't pick it up well or at all, so good luck with watching the DuMont network

TiVo is just one step from the flux capacitor! What does pausing TV have to do with time travel? I guess driving in reverse in a car is the same as going back in time too, or hitting the brakes for that matter.

You *can* do that, but those wear out fairly isn't and even the slightest magnetic field can ruin them. DVDs could survive a EMP bomb and a nuclear blast (assuming it's not directly hit). I'm afraid you'd be watching blank movies if you're sticking to 166 and 8mm.

If only records existed we'd be stuck with listening to music that has static in the background all the time. For the record, if records "sound better than CDs" than a the sound of a cat dying sounds better than billy holiday.

Do you really get upset if people are listening to music in public? You know you can watch video on those now? And listen to news broadcast, just like old time radio!

Video Games, yeah, they're useless, but hey who cares, you can always just spend all day diggin' that hole for your outhouse.

Look, maybe you miss 1975, but most people don't. Life is easier and is much simpler if you don't try to keep up with Joneses. You seem to think it's either all or nothing.

What I find most ironic is you're complaining about technology on a web site. Why didn't you just complain to a book? Like you said, it's the same thing.

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As for your additions:

Rap music isn't the only violent music. Modern heavy metal is generally just as violent, but only blacks are violent in this world, aren't they grandpa? Country music is violent too, it's hard to listen to it on the radio without hearing things about drunken fighting, suicide, cheating, and beating your wife.

School uniforms are great. School isn't a place to show off, but I don't know what that has to do with fun. I guess as soon as the uniforms are put on they take the slides and games away.

Greaser Lover:

I highly doubt technology is to blame for crime. But if it is, that explains why the Roman empire had high crime rates, it wasn't because of poverty, it was because they had the first toilets and running water in homes. I mean, that kind of technological leap makes it unsafe for anyone!

P.S. You sound like sockpuppet for the guy asking the question.

Answer 3

i dont think life would be easier because these things make everything less complicated...if u keep up with the times. But I do think if these things weren't around maybe families would actually spend time together because withe the evolution of technology everyone does their own thing......Lil Billy's playin a video game while Sara's texting her bf on the cell phone. Daddy's selling things on ebay and Mommy's making dinner...in the microwave!!!! Thats the modern family now a days no one sits down to a home cooked meal, play a board game and goes to bed anymore.