We - the human race - seems to have slowed down a bit in making the kind of technological leaps that we made in the last century.
I mean has anybody noticed how many new technologies offer us solutions that are worse than those which were on offer years ago, and they're charging us more for the privilage.
Heres my list ...
- Mobile phones - awful poor battery life - even if you are not using 3g, buggy software, poorer reception if you are on 3g.
- TV's - they might be flat but but the picture quality sure is worse with standard signals than the old kind.
- Hyrbrid cars - less green than my diesel fiesta in the early ninties which could circumnavigate the country on a single fill - now thats green.
- Low energy light bulbs. Light at the flick of a switch was invented decades ago. My parents had in instand light their home in the 50's. But here we are happily regressing to something that takes 20 seconds to get fully lit, gives off a dim light, and costs a multiple of the old type.
I mean has anybody noticed how many new technologies offer us solutions that are worse than those which were on offer years ago, and they're charging us more for the privilage.
Heres my list ...
- Mobile phones - awful poor battery life - even if you are not using 3g, buggy software, poorer reception if you are on 3g.
- TV's - they might be flat but but the picture quality sure is worse with standard signals than the old kind.
- Hyrbrid cars - less green than my diesel fiesta in the early ninties which could circumnavigate the country on a single fill - now thats green.
- Low energy light bulbs. Light at the flick of a switch was invented decades ago. My parents had in instand light their home in the 50's. But here we are happily regressing to something that takes 20 seconds to get fully lit, gives off a dim light, and costs a multiple of the old type.