Do you ever stop to marvel at today's technology?

I know I have.

The other day I was thinking what life would be like without my laptop, my mp3 player etc.

Then I got to thinking about how all the different things my laptop can do, and just ten years ago the highest end computers couldnt do what basic ones today do.

Its crazy, especially how everything you could ever want is right on the internet too

I remember when I wanted to go for a run with music I had to pick one CD and use a CD player. Now I can carry my entire music collection in my pocket. And I use to have to look stuff up in a book (usually requiring looking for the right book then buying or checking out said book), now I can find just about anything out in a matter of seconds on Google. And I remember having to use floppy disks to transfer stuff from computer to computer, and now I can carry about 2 gigs of info on a tiny flashdrive. And I remember to find rare or discontinued items I had to go from store to store searching for it, and now I can just use Amazon or Ebay. Technology is ****ing awesome.Darth_Tyrev

"When I was young, computer monitors could only display one color and black- and the other color wasn't white, it was green!"

I'm going to tell this to my kids, and they won't believe me.

Bio_Spark

lol, that's not THAT long ago... I'm only 18 and I remember having those apple computers in my elementary schools.

No, cuz when I used to run with the walkman I knew that one day they would create something like the iPod.heyfunboy

The radio is a true wonder to behold, let alone the television and the personal computer.

It's pretty awesome. I remember floppy disks all too well. I hope to never see one again.bman784

HAHAHAHAHAH

[QUOTE="heyfunboy"] No, cuz when I used to run with the walkman I knew that one day they would create something like the iPod.odyssey_divine

[QUOTE="odyssey_divine"][QUOTE="heyfunboy"] No, cuz when I used to run with the walkman I knew that one day they would create something like the iPod.heyfunboy

It's pretty awesome. I remember floppy disks all too well. I hope to never see one again.bman784

edit: nvm, according to the picture above, only 1.44 ;)

[QUOTE="bman784"]It's pretty awesome. I remember floppy disks all too well. I hope to never see one again.gamemaster_650

HAHAHAHAHAH

that image actually upsets me

[QUOTE="bman784"]It's pretty awesome. I remember floppy disks all too well. I hope to never see one again.gamemaster_650

HAHAHAHAHAH

[QUOTE="gamemaster_650"]

[QUOTE="bman784"]It's pretty awesome. I remember floppy disks all too well. I hope to never see one again.bman784

HAHAHAHAHAH

there there, it's okay :D

[QUOTE="bman784"]It's pretty awesome. I remember floppy disks all too well. I hope to never see one again.gamemaster_650

HAHAHAHAHAH

I stop and admire 1900's technology.MattUD1

it is more efficient, though late 1800's tech is more stylish, in my mind.

[QUOTE="bman784"]It's pretty awesome. I remember floppy disks all too well. I hope to never see one again.gamemaster_650

HAHAHAHAHAH

WHY?? I still remember this *****. Whenever i had to do a school report on PC and then I couldn´t open the file because it was so frail, or when I was in too much of a hurry and accidentally squished the disk on my backpack. I hate those things.

Sometimes i do

[QUOTE="MattUD1"]I stop and admire 1900's technology.Hewkii

it is more efficient, though late 1800's tech is more stylish, in my mind.

Yup.

It's cool that in much of the world, even people living in poverty still have a higher standard of living than the kings and emperors of old.

Alexander the Great may have ruled mucht of the known world, but did he have toilet paper and an iPod?

Exactly.

Of course, this doesn't apply to the people who are REALLY in life-threatening poverty. Many people have to drink out of the same river where they take a dump, and yeah...that sucks. But here in the USA, even people with no jobs, no home, and no money really don't have to worry about starving. There's a public water fountain in every library, and a dumpster behind every McDonalds.

I hate to be cynical because I freaking love technology, but the only time I start to marvel at is when I dont like how its made society.

Like email...email is good, but a lot of times it is the sole means of communication. Maybe its just me, but I find email to be good at initiating contact. Anything beyond that I like to discuss over the phone.

I hate remembering how easily impressed i was at technology emerging, Windows 3.1, Super Nintendo, then finally Pixar movies, etc. Now I'm so uneasily impressed I just think "Couldn't they have done better?"

I am actually impressed by some ice cube shot glasses I saw on ThinkGeek the other day tho, that was pretty ingenious.