01-21-2012, 07:45 AM
Well it's good to know your technological isolation hasn't made cynical 
I guess it'd be fair to say I'm addicted to my phone and the Internet in general, but I can't understand why other people can't see how much better life can be with a few shortcuts.
I can add very well myself and I also own a calendar, but my calendar won't remind me of appointments, wake me up in the morning or automatically load my friends birthday's from Facebook. Please give me a link to your wall calendar if it can do those things and I'll be very excited to purchase it.
I DON'T own an Encyclopedia or paper dictionary- and why would I? Any hard copy would be a subset of the information available online. And 'real' books are best collected. If I really like a book or series, I'll buy the hard cover and NEVER open it thus preserving the book.
I use GPS because one thing that a map CANNOT do is estimate the distance for you, avoid construction traffic and give you the choice of better roads or shortest distance . . . The one thing I've noticed is that people are too proud to admit that they NEED technology, but not me. I CAN do a lot of things- like fix my own septic system, but I'll be damned if I'll do it if I don't have to. My phone and iPad do things for me so why wouldn't I take advantage of that?
I guess it'd be fair to say I'm addicted to my phone and the Internet in general, but I can't understand why other people can't see how much better life can be with a few shortcuts.
I can add very well myself and I also own a calendar, but my calendar won't remind me of appointments, wake me up in the morning or automatically load my friends birthday's from Facebook. Please give me a link to your wall calendar if it can do those things and I'll be very excited to purchase it.
I DON'T own an Encyclopedia or paper dictionary- and why would I? Any hard copy would be a subset of the information available online. And 'real' books are best collected. If I really like a book or series, I'll buy the hard cover and NEVER open it thus preserving the book.
I use GPS because one thing that a map CANNOT do is estimate the distance for you, avoid construction traffic and give you the choice of better roads or shortest distance . . . The one thing I've noticed is that people are too proud to admit that they NEED technology, but not me. I CAN do a lot of things- like fix my own septic system, but I'll be damned if I'll do it if I don't have to. My phone and iPad do things for me so why wouldn't I take advantage of that?