Technology just amazes me!

like yourself i only have a very basic cellphone and only because of my daughter who lives in australia complains she can never get hold of me when im travelling. One thing i have ditched though is televison that went in the bin several years ago.

Well, kinda. My cell phone was acting like it was possessed. That made me think about how advanced technology has become because the more advanced things become, the more there is to go wrong. I just recently (like last week) got a new cell phone. I showed it to my son yesterday and he asked, "Where did you find that? A second-hand shop?" He said this because I actually downgraded to a much more simple phone. It's a new phone but has quite a lot less features than my old phone. It still takes photos but it's a lot easier (for me) to use. I'm just waiting for the day we no longer have to leave our homes because everything we could possibly want or need can be bought online and delivered to us. I think it's almost there now. It's scary.

You are right my friend, my daughter in law went to her parents house this noon, as the train was late, they had to be in railway station for 2 hours, my son tool several pictures of my granddaughter using cell phone and sent to me.. In 1958 i was 13, my home, infact this area did not had electrictyor tap water, we used kerosene lamps, valve type radio that used huge size battery, tv was unheard of.. And now we have all these stuff!!! Just imagine what it will be after anothe 10 years!! Thank you so much for this discussion. Professor. . Cheers have a great day ahead. God bless you. Welcome always.

Wow! I'm 53 and everyone had telephones in their home before I was born! When I was pregnant the first time in 1983 we used a pager I could call when the big moment arrived. We are considering giving up our land line now. We aren't excited to try new technology but there are times the convenience outweighs the cost.

Mobile phone technology is quite amazing. I use this when in a shop to pass a photo of something that we might buy to my partner before making the decision. I can pass on something that surpasses that (yeah, I know being a smarty pants- good Lord that is probably an old saying know). Last week we bought a TV Gizmo via e-bay. £9.99 with no postage. It is a USB TV dongle for any channel without subscription for PC use. It's plug and play, works with both Windows 7 and XP (you need your XP disk to install Chinese for some channels, but it still works if you don't) and you do not have to pay a subscription. Since Virgin have ripped us off we will be ditching them at the first opportunity.

its growing to fast for me. I can only imagine what it will be like even 5 years from now!!

Technology is amazing especially if, like me, you recall life without these ‘contraptions’ we all deem so necessary! It is incredible that within minutes you can post something all over the globe but what astounds me even more is that my nine year old daughter has no idea of a life without a computer or a mobile phone not to mention her DS, the WII, PlayStation...

You right, friend. Technology really great which makes people nearby even in reality they are far apart...

Hiya chem, I was going to write Jack and his Friend then silly me Things have changed so much in so many ways no wonder it´s hard to be disconnected from this World we live in. I hardly use my Mobile Phone but would not be without it either at the very best of times. Jack and his Friend look great in the Photo and all over Facebook too amazing. I don´t use Facebook to that extent but it is a great site for that kind of thing. You don´t even need to have a webpage of your own now do you? I can think of a lot incidences on the Television where the Mobile Phone has been used for the good of other People. Saving their lives in difficult situations. There are loads of them actually going on all the time.

I don't have a mobile phone at the moment but did have the old, brick-like Nokia that was sooo popular in the early 2000s..and you're right, technology has moved apace since then..at frightening speed! My Sony Ericcson I had after that was awesome because it had a built-in camera. Woohoo! Hubby has a new Samsung phone and it has a touch screen. It's gorgeous, it really is. Emails used to fascinate Mum when I was at hers with this computer but MyLot is even better because there are people here from all over the world, different time zones, and they still find the time to reply. It really is mind-boggling how everything is worldwide now, not just restricted to a few countries. Texts are amazing too. I used to wake a guy up in Australia with mine lol.

Here most people have a cell phone. When I was a kid, I had a phone that you cranked to ring. My older sister (50 yrs) uses text messaging to quite a bit. She mainly uses because her kids use it and wanted to be more involved in their lives. She even enjoys it more thsn calling. I am trying to get more versed in things the younger generation do quite a bit, so I don't get "left behind".

It blows me away how many people have cell phones these days. When I was driving cab one of our cabbies was robbed and stabbed by a couple who had called for the cab on their cell phone. They only got $35 from him. When the case came to court, they claimed they needed the money for diapers and formula for their baby. I was thinking, if you can't afford diapers and formula, you shouldn't be able to afford a cell phone! The cabbie did recover but his hands were badly injured and he had a long time in recovery to be able to use them again...and even then they said he'd never regain 100% of them. In my book, if you have a cell phone you cannot cry poverty as an excuse to steal. I got trapped into a 2 year contract before having to go on disability and, believe me, I went without a lot of other things until that contract was up! It galled me that I couldn't go to the cell phone company and claim poverty as a reason to end the contract early. I came to the conclusion that cell phones are evil. lol

i already realized that since i was a kid. since i live in the IT world, i really see how fast technology phased out and brings another new stuffs. before cellphones are only used to communicate, now cellphone has everything. every year cellphone manufacturers make newly improved cellphones that made buyers want to buy them so gadgets are really disposable for some.

Technology nowadays keep on growing and growing non-stop.. from iphone 3G to 4G and maybe in less than one year, you will see iphone 5G with some unbelievable technology integrated within this small machine box

Hi Oldchem Yes I agree with you then having a Phone was luxury but it is like with Computers when they first came to light they where a Luxury and not many People could afford them, now these things are an every Day thing that People have and are able to afford And no doubt in the Future there will be more new Things to come

It is true, technology has grown so much since I was a teenager. Now everyone has to have a cell phone. How did we ever survive without one? My husband and I talk about it all the time how different things are these days and how technology is constantly changing, just look at picture taking as well. Before we used to take pictures and hope they turned out nicely and we waited for those perfect photos as to not waste shots. Now we can take hundreds of pictures, place them on the computer and keep the ones we want. It is quite amazing.

I agree technology is an amazing thing! I know some people think it's detrimental to our environment, but I just love it! I was born in 1945 in a remote place in a country in South America...just imagine we never had a radio or electricity until I was 11 years old [ and those we had by wind power that charged big batteries ][ we had a special room for it ] but before then I was reading Readers Digest when I was about 10 and I used to think how backwards we where.My father touch as to read and write and at 11 years old I went to a real school for the first time! There was only one phone in the whole town[and that was at the police station] so we could only use that phone for emergencies, like calling a doctor or such thing. Yes we have come a long way since then. Today I live in Australia, my mother came to visit us when she was 70 [ first time on a plane!] and she enjoyed it very much! sadly she passed away at age 83 but she got to know and enjoy technology as we could communicate more often via the internet she just was amazed how we could actually "talk" and see pictures just like that! I only wish I can live that long so I can enjoy what is coming next.

a lot of times. a niece just six years old suddenly greeted me hi in the chat facility of Facebook. she chatted with me for a few minutes and it was really amazing that they can do it already this early.

The thing that always amazed me with technology is television. When I was little we had this HUGE console t.v. in our living room. Of course back then, we were only able to sit in the living room when my parents were in there and usually that was rare. We did have a t.v. in the den which was also a huge console t.v....the only ones that made back then. Then there were the t.v. stations. I live outside Chicago growing up and I can still remember the channels. We had 2, 5, 7 and the local channel 9 out of Chicago. We had a channel 11 which was PBS and no one watched that back then. When I got a bit older they added channel 32 and 66 (I believe) and those never really had anything good on it. Now, my kids get made because we only have 150+ channels...REALLY???!!??? I can't even decide what to watch on t.v. when I actually sit and watch it because there is too much to pick from! Not to mention the size of t.v.'s now...they are HUGE!! My kids all have flat screen plasma t.v.s and they are big. They laugh at hubby and I because we have a 19" (which I think is big).

We are just so fortunate that technology has been a great development through ages..