What you don't do anymore? Wich gestures are already forgotten?
By pierone
@pierone (1894)
Italy
November 2, 2008 9:39pm CST
In the last 20 years technology grown so much, that our daily acts are really different now from the past.
What gestures we have already forgot?
For example, we don't use anymore the crank-winder to open the car windows, as well as we don't turn anymore the knob on the radio tuner to find our favorite station.
Can you tell a gesture we don't do anymore?
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@ersmommy1 (12588)
• United States
12 Nov 08
I don't have a pager anymore. I haven't used one in over a decade. Cell phones took care of those. Most of us use remotes to change the channel on tvs. No more knobs on those either.
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@pierone (1894)
• Italy
12 Nov 08
wow, i totally forgot the existence of pagers!
In my country they got really a little diffusion, and we directly "jumped" that technology, becoming the country with the highest number of mobile phone in the world (compared with the population). Here in Italy mobile phone is something like a mania, is not so difficult to see people with 3 different phones. Have 2 phones here is quite common! I think is crazy, but that's our way ;)
@catdla1 (6005)
• United States
3 Nov 08
I think the biggest change in the last 20 years, is how we access information. I have a pile of cookbooks, but I rarely use them. If I'm looking for a recipe, I just look online for it. Same thing with the newspaper. I haven't subscribed for years now. I read the news online all the time now.
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@pierone (1894)
• Italy
3 Nov 08
You're right, but personally i prefere keep my recipe near the gas cooker, and reading a long newspaper article instead of the short spots on the net, let me feel better.
Anyway i'm agree with you, lot of people reads the news only on the net, and books are becomed something rarely used for the most of the people.
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@catdla1 (6005)
• United States
3 Nov 08
While actual newspaper articles may be longer, the advantage of the web it that you can look up several articles from different sources about the same incident. Doing this, I think it's easier to formulate your own ideas and viewpoints, since all reporters report a story from their own viewpoint.
Books are a whole different ballgame. I can't imagine reading a book online. I read all the time, usually a book every other day or so. The internet may make reading convenient, but nothing replaces the wonderful intoxicating smell of a new book.
@gyramary (152)
• Italy
12 Nov 08
hand writing is also something that people nowadays do really few. And lot of people have really ugly calligraphy now, coz they are not habbit to hand writing. That's sad, coz i guess that when you handwrite something, you put in what you write more soul than when you write something with a keyboard. Your emotions also, are well represented by your calligraphy.
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@riccinyco (94)
• Italy
24 Nov 08
Hello,
here what we do really few now is call a landline. When you are looking for a friend of yours you call on the mobile phone, and quite never you try to call him on the landline, also if you know that probably is in his job, or at home.
This is something we are used to do now, and is sad, because landline calls are cheaper.
The demonstration that we don't call the landlines quite never is every telephone company here is giving out, to attract more customers, landline calls for free! ;)
