Fascinating Life
Written by Mary Stephenson (1-10-2017)
The ad to your right is from a little local newspaper where I grew up. “Driftwood” and November 16, 1961 was the date.(removed for data space)
A number of years ago I was looking for an interesting incident that I was surprised never was reported in the Driftwood. But then I found this ad, which made me chuckle.
The reason this even came to mind was how we have progressed from those days. A toaster! Could you see kids today being the tiniest bit fascinated by bread popping up. Uh, well maybe if you were a year old.
The other day I had an email from a relative in England. She was wondering about my sister, who by the way has never moved on up to technology. Had to hunt her down and the internet provided me with the tools to do so. A quick search on Google provided me with a phone number for the building she lived in. Was given an update of what had recently transpired. Soon I was on Facebook and hooked up with her sons. Shortly afterwards I had her phone number.
Gave her a call and got the scoop on what was happening. Emailed the cousin in England, emailed a few others and soon everyone is connected again. Amazing world we have now.
With the flip of a switch and a few keystrokes and the world opens up. You can share information, gain insights and connect with anyone around the world.
We are very lucky to be able to communicate very easily and quickly. Emails, websites, searches all done so quickly from the comfort of your home or cell phone.
This website is a tool for our club. It provides all members with up to date information. It also provides people outside of our club information on what we are doing and who we are. How each one of use it is an option but it is amazing technology.
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Nice piece Mary. A fresh way to look at this technology.
Remember when this first started? We had “dial up” connections. Reminds me of my Dad telling me how his Dad purchased the first radio in Logan Utah. The thing was as big as a washing machine. It had primitive head phones and he said you really had to strain to hear.
The uses are evolving as well. Our new President, for example, is eliminating some of the need for the press. He is throwing things out into cyberspace on his twitter connection. The press hates it of course. Just wonderful, in my mind, no matter what side of the aisle one calls home.
Hi Stan
The wonderful thing about this new technology is that it is much cheaper as the years go by. Reliability is better for most things. The first radio we had tubes, that if jarred they would break. It wasn’t long ago when we purchased a handheld scanner for like $150 and neither one of us could get it to work. Scanned about a half a page and it looked awful.
For all those that like to talk to themselves in public, the cell phone has been a blessing! You can talk to yourself and everyone will think you are on the phone with someone, they will no longer think you are crazy.
Mary