You nostalgia brehs crack me up. Computers have enhanced every aspect of life, you can still do physical activities, make friends and all the other shyt technology supposedly stopped.
I disagree.
Technology has not made people happier or healthier.
Plus, it's created whole generations of narcissists who take pictures of themselves all day and can't handle criticism.
Also, it allows you to have a closed mind more than before in some ways.
Think about how polarized our political climate is. You know why that is? Because you don't have to actually leave your house to talk politics. You can go to your forums with people who share the exact same views as you do and never have to evolve. I don't know how old you are, but if you talked politics with your friends, families, co-workers, classmates, etc. . , you couldn't just write them off as idiots, you had to actually learn how to get along with people before.
It made us better people, but now thanks to things like Twitter and Facebook, people have become insufferable polemics about things like vaccines, abortion, gay marriage, police brutality, racism, etc. . .
Think about how annoying people have become because they're sure they're right and don't even have to listen to other viewpoints
Think about how much disinformation gets spread (like the false 23 cents on the dollar statistic feminists spout) and repeated.
Think about how much people are harassed now because of technology.
Think about how our civil liberties have been eroded because of the NSA, FBI, etc. . .
You're mistaking CONVENIENT with better.
Just because something is more convenient doesn't mean that it's better.
:flobbe:What the hell? Smartphones have access to every answer in the world at your fingertips. That's not altered technology, that's a quantum leap enhancement to every day life.
You can connect to damn near any person on the planet with video and voice chat. I can check the weather while driving cross country and map alternate routes in seconds.
It enhances your fitness (personal trainer and GPS mile tracker in your pocket), your finance (you can bank and trade from your pocket), have business meetings, arrange get-togethers on the fly, order food and pay before you even reach the restaurant, order plane, hotel, and car on one app.
That's just smartphones. :booklol:
Most of the things in here are about being younger which I get, nostalgia does that. But there's no way in hell life was better before computers.
How does it enhance fitness when people are fatter than ever?
Yes, you have more answers, but many of the answers are wrong and disinformation
People could order food on the fly with old cell phones or at pay phones.
How has it made finances better when it has allowed people like Wall-Street to become even more effective at stealing people's money?
Life before computers had the same expectations. If you had a phone, there was expectations that you'd be able to answer that phone whenever it rang within reasonable hours like when you're off or before you go to work.
Having the phone on you more doesn't change that expectation because the phone is inherently supposed to be the means of contact. It's supposed to let people contact you whenever.
That's just not true.
I don't have my cell phone on ever. I didn't even want to get one and held out as much as possible. The reason I had to get one is because everybody had an expectation that they'd be able to reach me whenever they wanted to and it was costing me opportunities.
That wasn't a problem I had before there was an expectation that you'd be reachable 24 hours a day.
People in business expected to reach you during business hours (between 8am-5pm). It was rare to have people bothering you about anything from that point on.
Now, you're expected to answer e-mails, tweets, facebook posts, calls at anytime.
Look, I know it sounds like I hate technology. I really don't, but I don't think it's made my life better or most people in America's in any real way. It's just put more pressure on us and unless you have complete control of your life like you work for yourself or something there's not a whole lot you can do about it.
internet wasn't laid uniformly. every year, people around the country is getting high speed internet now. People still use AOL because that's all they got. So yeah, people spend more time online now than ever and next year, more than this year.
"wait wait don't eat yet lemme get a picture first" 
Phone conversations were used when you Really couldn't talk to them in person , not for the convenience .
