Techies: What would you miss the most?
I was pondering what items of technology and geekery I would miss the most if I had to do without them.
I could do quite well without my mobile phone - I only use it for occasional texts, and most people know how to get hold of me in other ways. I rarely make or receive phone calls on it, and rarer still from places where there aren’t alternative methods.
When it comes to computer stuff, I’d miss a lot more.
I’d miss my iBook more than my desktop Mac, even though it’s less powerful, because of the way I tend to work at the moment. I love being able to work and write on the move, and sit in my comfortable armchair rather than at a computer desk.
I’d miss my iPod because I wanted something like it for years and years - way before it was even invented.
Not having my PDA would mean I’d go back to a paper diary, which is no big deal. Some of the other things on it are useful though.
I wouldn’t miss TVs, videos, DVDs, particularly.
I would die without the Internet. Well, OK, I wouldn’t. I still go to the supermarket for groceries. Yet my life has become scarily attached to the net. I communicate via it, I research on it, I publish on it, I read the news on it, I shop on it, I play games on it, I met my wife on it (no wonder, I spent so much time on it…), my work doesn’t really depend on it now, but it has done in the past, some of my future dreams and aspirations depend on it…
Take the Internet away and I would have to do a major reorganisation of my life. It wouldn’t be impossible, but it would be very difficult.
What technological stuff would you miss the most, and why?
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May 28th, 2005 at 3:30 am
All respect to the question, I think “Internet” is too wide to be one item. Narrowing it down, I’d probably say email, though I’d be torn between email and the web in general.
But in your original terms, yes, Internet would be the one I’d miss the most. I love my mobile phone and my ipod and vcr and TV, but they pale into insignificance beside the Net.
May 28th, 2005 at 9:13 am
I tend to refer to the Internet as exlcuding email, even though email is dependent on the Net. Which means that I didn’t mention email at all.
It’d be tough without either, but the sheer scope of what’s possible (and what will be possible) using wider Internet services would mean I’d miss it more than ’simple’ email, whose functionality I could perform in other ways.