This was fun to learn! I remember my first Timex--had it for years. Anyway anti-smart brings me to the 21st century and stuff we just don't need, or I don't need. I'm trying to buy a newer car and drove a demonstrator embossed with such extravagance, I was literally overwhelmed and had to escape. I counted at least twenty "buttons" I did not need or would use. And the three-year old SUV was outrageously expensive. There is nothing simple anymore? Where did it go? I continue to look, and then sadly I haven't worn a watch in years because I have this phone....
Oh yes. I recently bought a mechanical Speed Queen washing machine because I didn't want one of these mother board numbers that jiggles the clothes and hesitates, trying to make decisions about the load I can easily make myself. One of these annoying computerized machines that inevitably break soon after purchase.
And yet... I also think of the downsides of the mechanical, and how we as a species might get to a point where we are no longer using tremendous amounts of energy to manipulate matter, but are manipulating energy itself. Maybe (maybe?) cars with glossy digital dashboards, with no mechanical dials or buttons, are a necessary step?
This was fun to learn! I remember my first Timex--had it for years. Anyway anti-smart brings me to the 21st century and stuff we just don't need, or I don't need. I'm trying to buy a newer car and drove a demonstrator embossed with such extravagance, I was literally overwhelmed and had to escape. I counted at least twenty "buttons" I did not need or would use. And the three-year old SUV was outrageously expensive. There is nothing simple anymore? Where did it go? I continue to look, and then sadly I haven't worn a watch in years because I have this phone....
Oh yes. I recently bought a mechanical Speed Queen washing machine because I didn't want one of these mother board numbers that jiggles the clothes and hesitates, trying to make decisions about the load I can easily make myself. One of these annoying computerized machines that inevitably break soon after purchase.
And yet... I also think of the downsides of the mechanical, and how we as a species might get to a point where we are no longer using tremendous amounts of energy to manipulate matter, but are manipulating energy itself. Maybe (maybe?) cars with glossy digital dashboards, with no mechanical dials or buttons, are a necessary step?