What did we do before...

[savedbygrace05]

...mobile phones?

...internet?

...too many tv channels?

...atm's?

 

[Mr Dave]

...mobile phones?

...internet?

...too many tv channels?

...atm's?

Remember when if you wanted money from the bank, you had to take a book to the bank and withdraw it.

Failing that, people bought things with cheques.

 

[Genersis]

Are you talking about just before, or say, 19th/18th century?

 

[Martinius]

What did we do before:

...mobile phones?

...internet?

...too many tv channels?

...atm's?

Spent way less money.

The internet is the only one among the four that is "essential" to my work and much of my life. It is a huge time saver; I think of it as a reference library and communication system that I can access anywhere, anytime. It makes my job and my life much better. I use my mobile phone about 10-15% as much as most people I know, watch only a few TV channels and programs, and have used an ATM maybe once in the past two years.

I see my phone as a convenience and another time saver, and in many ways it has replaced my home phone. But I tend not to use it much more than I did when all I had was a land line. The exception is for checking in when traveling or meeting people; otherwise I can go hours and hours without making a call on it. From Friday of last week to today (Monday) I have made a total of 8 calls on my cell, with 2 being for business and 2 for call backs. I refuse to let it control my life.

I have seen this scene in cartoons but recently saw it in real life: two teenagers, boy and girl, sitting next to each other, busily texting away, paying no attention to the one next to them. I had to shake my head and chuckle.

 

[Genersis]

I use my phone as more of a handheld computer than an actual phone.
I've never been a fan of using phones to call people anyway.
I don't watch TV.
I don't use ATM's.
And i love the internet.
Really is the best invention of the human race to date.
Learning, communicating, entertainment; everything you'll ever need to keep yourself occupied and to grow as an individual.

 

[ebia]

Remember when if you wanted money from the bank, you had to take a book to the bank and withdraw it.

And often that involved standing in a long queue on a weekday before 3pm.

 

[savedbygrace05]

Remember when if you wanted money from the bank, you had to take a book to the bank and withdraw it.

Failing that, people bought things with cheques.

Yep, and with all the plastic that is around I am glad that they are no longer scrapping cheques in 2018.

Hooray for the good old reliable chequebook.

 

[savedbygrace05]

What did we do before:



Spent way less money.

The internet is the only one among the four that is "essential" to my work and much of my life. It is a huge time saver; I think of it as a reference library and communication system that I can access anywhere, anytime. It makes my job and my life much better. I use my mobile phone about 10-15% as much as most people I know, watch only a few TV channels and programs, and have used an ATM maybe once in the past two years.

I see my phone as a convenience and another time saver, and in many ways it has replaced my home phone. But I tend not to use it much more than I did when all I had was a land line. The exception is for checking in when traveling or meeting people; otherwise I can go hours and hours without making a call on it. From Friday of last week to today (Monday) I have made a total of 8 calls on my cell, with 2 being for business and 2 for call backs. I refuse to let it control my life.

I have seen this scene in cartoons but recently saw it in real life: two teenagers, boy and girl, sitting next to each other, busily texting away, paying no attention to the one next to them. I had to shake my head and chuckle.

Hmmm! But what will happen when they have to ration power, or with power cuts that happen with storms etc, and the whole grid is down for days!! :o

 

[savedbygrace05]

...everything you'll ever need to keep yourself occupied and to grow as an individual.

Hmmm! But would we socialise more without it?!!

 

[Grannie Annie]

I think we all got along a lot better, there was less crime, we communicated better and I think it was a better world generally....I miss those old days.

 

[Leap]

...mobile phones?

...internet?

...too many tv channels?

...atm's?

A friend was someone you actually had to be there for, rather than just tick a box on an app or post "*hugs*" to...

Speaking as someone who was born just prior to the moon landing, I can recall our family having no telephone at all and when television had "closedown" and shops had half day closing and no opening at all on sundays.

I can also remember getting my first computer, a zx81, in the early 80s, and beng awed by what it would do (and fantasising that it would do what we now do daily with the internet).

Looking back, I would say we have lost an intimacy and stability in favour of greater mobility and flexibility. Back then the world seemed quieter and less 'busy' and crowded, whilst today it is hyperactive, noisy and packed. Today, to get that, we head out into the countryside, but with mobile tech even the countryside is "connected".

 

[Robban]

Before the great information flood which is now upon us, it was usual to go to the libary, pull out a little drawer and flick through the cards in the drawer until you found what you were looking for, then go find the shelf and position, and, darn someone has already loaned the book.

 

[Robban]

...mobile phones?

...internet?

...too many tv channels?

...atm's?

Looks like we are getting there and it is going very fast now.
As in the days of Noah, so shall the end times be, a flood of both heavenly and earthly information, spiritual from above and scientific and techno from below, these shall meet, and this is all happening now before our very eyes.
the industrial revolution was what got the ball rolling.
Does it not say somewhere, "When you see all this happen you will know"?

That,s one perspective.

 

[Genersis]

Hmmm! But would we socialise more without it?!!

I know I wouldn't.
But for other people, it's possible i guess.

If, on the other hand, you don't class anything but face-to-face contact with people as socialising, then yeah, obviously.

 

[Martinius]

Hmmm! But what will happen when they have to ration power, or with power cuts that happen with storms etc, and the whole grid is down for days!! :o

In that situation, I will do the same thing I do now in the many hours that I am not attached to my phone, computer or other e-devices: Pick up a good book and read it. And intersperse that with a personal one-on-one conversation with my wife or someone else.

 

[Skavau]

I think we all got along a lot better, there was less crime, we communicated better and I think it was a better world generally....I miss those old days.

Likely, due to worse communications & awareness there was less reported crime and less people knew of crimes being committed.

How far back are you going here anyway?

 

[Robban]

Likely, due to worse communications & awareness there was less reported crime and less people knew of crimes being committed.

How far back are you going here anyway?

Maybe not so far back for some.
I thought Europe was a country! - YouTube

 

[Miser]

I think we all got along a lot better, there was less crime, we communicated better and I think it was a better world generally....I miss those old days.

Id love to know what planet that was on, it sounds marvelous. Generally crime rates have always scaled with the population. At one point in the Victorian period crime got so bad leading doctors blamed genetics, that criminality was inherited from parents and these degenerates were prolific breeders. Nothing to do with living conditions, no sir!

Im just grateful we dont have gun laws (or lack of) like America, their gun crime is astronomical.

 

[Grannie Annie]

I think in the "olden days" 60s...people respected authority a lot more and authorities HAD authority....parents had authority over kids and teens. You could walk the streets at night unmolested....I'm not saying life was perfect, but I honestly believe life was a lot safer then. No one knocked you on the head to steal a cigarette or pair of sneakers....it was a good planet then....much better than it is now....I honestly believe that.

 

[vinylman]

Looks like we are getting there and it is going very fast now.
As in the days of Noah, so shall the end times be, a flood of both heavenly and earthly information, spiritual from above and scientific and techno from below, these shall meet, and this is all happening now before our very eyes.
the industrial revolution was what got the ball rolling.
Does it not say somewhere, "When you see all this happen you will know"?

That,s one perspective.

This seem's very true to me!

I was a 80's child but even I have seen how much time's have changed. I'm not saying that in the past everything was perfect as I know it was far from it. However I do believe that in these present time's there's no more discretion, we all have to live a certain way and be certain people, I for one use technology on a daily basis and yes it make's aspect's of my life much easier, however sometime's I wish it would all go away and leave me in peace. Even turning your phone off isn't a way to detach from the world any more.

I had to quote the above post, it make's sense in so many way's!!!