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Originally Posted by notinmybackyard
It doesn't take an Einstein to figure out that you're a bit of a computer nerd. On the other hand I'm the direct opposite of you and therefore I go to bed every night praying for a giant solar flair to pound us back into the stone age.  So I'll just throw this out to you as something for you to think about.
Old tech was better tech,
It required a human being element to make it work and it was tough to destroy. A good example is my hobby of restoring cars. For the most part every car, regardless of make, that's been newer than 2008 has been a piece of shit. One repair problem after the next and 60% of the time it's the computer that's faulty. Even if I find a used ECM I'm required to pay a mechanic a tidy sum of money to flash it with my VIN.
Even when it's the ECM I've got to tear down large parts of the vehicle to get at the faulty part. For example I had to change an alternator on a 5.7 Charger by removing a drive axel and large sections of the under body to get at it. Now compare this to my collection of 80s and 70s cars and the repairs are about as easy as your old Tandy Computer.
Old tech is reliable, fixable, never needs updating and the human being maintains control. New tech breaks when you sneeze on it, is hard to fix, outdates within months and humans are quickly becoming obsolete. Ultimately today's version of technology just costs us money while lowering our earning potential. A good example of this is the porn industry, we used to spend $250K just to make a movie versus $250 to film a POV hooker.
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I've been watching Mad Men (again) and it's amazing how simple everything was back then. You couldn't watch TV at 4am because there was only three channels and none of them were in operation at 4am. At the same time, if you broke down at 4am in the middle of no where.... You had to walk to get to a phone. I remember driving into San Francisco to explore the city - If I had issues we had to call people. If they weren't by the phone, you were shit out of luck.
No way I want to go back to that. You can reach me 24/7 no matter where in the world I am. I have GPS so I never ever get lost. I have a 2012 Jeep Grand Cherokee and I was worried because Jeep is always at the bottom of reliability lists but I've only had one problem, it was minor, and I've never had an issue again. People will argue "things were made better back then" but oddly enough.... Seems to me every car made "back then" had a muffler that eventually had issues and came loose, yet I don't see this any more now. Also, ever notice you don't see beat up cars on the road any more?
Our world now is amazing....