What's life gonna be if there is no cellphone and computers

@ellovire (409)
July 25, 2011 4:45am CST
My grandparents used to say that life during their days was really hard. They cannot easily communicate with their relatives in the provinces or in foreign lands. They cannot easily transport from one place to another. Food was not an easy access. So on and so forth. Fifty to sixty years later, who would have thought of cellphones and computers? Of facebook and tweeter? Of skype and YM? I am just wondering, what if life fifty years ago remains to be the same today? What if we still do not have cellphones and computers?
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@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
25 Jul 11
wE WOULD PROBABLY LEARN OVER HOW TO COMMUNICATE w/people again. I would miss my computer but it wouldn't bother me to throw my cell in the garbage today. I very seldom ever use it . My son is addicted to his. We might could have a decent conversation when he comes if he wasn't on that stinking cell the whole time he's here, lol.
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@ellovire (409)
25 Jul 11
You have a point there, my friend. You see, sometimes people do not bother to call each other anymore (voice call) rather they resort to texting, online chatting, or email. We seldom learn of each other's emotions or feelings anymore due to this short-message type of communication. However, on a positive note, a lot also benefit from it. Parents that work in foreign lands can easily communicate with their children. The same to students who study in the city or abroad communicate with their parents and friends back home anytime. I guess there are really positive and negative effects of the improving technology.
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@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
25 Jul 11
U are right of course. They can come in handy under certaincircumstances but i don't think a phone should rule your world like my son's & so many others.
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• Philippines
25 Jul 11
A hard time to everyone for sure, just think about the communication level if we still don't have super technologies for the next decade, we have no choice but to use paper and pen to write to anyone and wait for a week or maybe a month for a response. This is so time consuming compared to cellphones we have now. Thanks for this cellphones,computers and a lot more technologies that came out during our generation.
@ellovire (409)
25 Jul 11
Technology keeps in developing and improving. What we tought was the best gadget ever discovered two years ago is probably updated or obsolete now. Technology never stops on competing with itself.
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@apsara60 (6610)
• Israel
26 Jul 11
We would have not felt anything, if we had not seen these modern equipnetns with our own eyes and had not enjoyed the benefits and pleasures to which now we have become addicted. When you don't know about anything, it is different, but if you know about something and that thing is taken away from you........then life can become miserable and depressing and that is what will happen to us if we start living like 50 years ago people lived. Not a good idea
@apsara60 (6610)
• Israel
26 Jul 11
may be you are right.......when you will not get something for long time, you will forget it soon and then again start enjoying the way you live as you get used to it........we really are strange......
@ellovire (409)
26 Jul 11
Something's telling me that we can still do it without cellphone and internet because our folks fifty years ago were able to do it. Maybe life would be simpler, but a bit hard. But we can bear it, I guess, because we will get used to that kind of living.
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• Philippines
25 Jul 11
I don't think I can live without the gadgets we're using now. They really are a big help when it comes to communicating with other people such as family members, relatives, friends and colleagues. Also, the internet can be a great source of information so I don't think it'll be easy once modern technology disappeared in an instant.
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@ellovire (409)
25 Jul 11
Life now a days is so advance that we end up using all these gadgets, for without them we would be left behind.
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• United States
26 Jul 11
I guess we would have to live like our previous ancestors did. When our great great grandparents were alive, telephones weren't even invented so the only way they could really communicate to someone far away was by writing a letter.
@ellovire (409)
26 Jul 11
Yes, communication back then was really hard. Writing letters would be the way to do it, and sending it out to the receiver is another thing.
@mantis36 (4219)
• Philippines
26 Jul 11
and writing a letter by means of quilt birds feathers ink.... because even ballpen and pencil are made by computers too.... even papers are made of computers too...
@mantis36 (4219)
• Philippines
26 Jul 11
but according to others... they said that GOSSIP has ears and wings... hehehehe
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• Philippines
25 Jul 11
If life 50 years ago is still up today, then steve jobs doesn't have a job and bill gates is not a billionaire. I could not have courted my wife and my child would have not been born. I'm not a programmer and I probably is tilling the ground for a living. Wow, that's a lonely life i think, I just realized it just now! Thanks for reminding me how important technology is to my life.
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@KrauseHome (36448)
• United States
27 Jul 11
Personally looking back over my life and the changes and such that I have seen, there is Good and Bad in all that I have experienced and seen change and some of the things even if they seem like they are better have taken away from our imagination and such as well. Gone are the days where kids used to play dodgeball for hrs. or barbies and monopoly and parents had to call their parents house at 10 p.m. telling them it was time for us kids to come home. Gone are the days of kids just being kids. Now it is all about texting, being online chatting or using Facebook, and being on the phone all the time, using the WII and XBOX and not having time to want to go outside and enjoy the outdoors. People always seem to be so rushed and there is never enough time to get everything done, and if you need to do a report or such look on the Internet and have the computer do it for you. We have lost many of the Good values and such life before was based on.
@ellovire (409)
28 Jul 11
Study shows also that kids of this generation have a greater chance to be obese, or to have a less healthy body due to this generation's lifestyle. Children before are more active because they move a lot when they play - baseball, football, basketball, skateboard, hide and seek, etc. These games require mobility so kids of yesterday, even when playing, have exercise. Kids today can play basketball, car race, hide and seek, in front of their computers!! All they have to do is move their eyeballs and their fingers LOL. So there is less mobility, thus no exercise at all. Even adults are guilty of this and I am sure of that. Gone are the days wherein guys will play basketball after office hours. Now, all they have to do is go online with their friends and compete with each other on whatever online games they fancy. Imagine spending hours sitting infront of your computer, just flexing little amount of muscle in your body.
@ladygator (3465)
• United States
28 Jul 11
I tend to believe if we didn't have all this technology we may just be more personable and friendly to one another. Having the computers have taken so much personable skills away allowing people to be more cold and less talkative to others around us. It has taken away our skill of comMunication. However without the technology we wouldnt know as much as we do and be able to talk to others around the globe.
@ellovire (409)
28 Jul 11
You are correct. I also noticed that people tend to just text or email each other rathen than make a voice call to talk, or visit each other's house to ask how things are going. Gone are the days wherein people would plan to drive miles and miles just to visit a friend or relative because they have not seen each other for the longest time. Now, email or texting or chatting will do.
• India
26 Jul 11
How true though I must say that we are slaves to our own habits. I cant imagine life without computers and more still, without the net connection. Every time I switch on the computer, I have to connect to the net whether I need it or not…without net, the computer somehow feels lifeless LOL However, I don’t have a mobile phone and neither do I intend taking one. I have some problems in my ear and I don’t want the mobile phone to exacerbate it. Communication is not a problem coz all my friends and relatives know that I don’t carry my mobile so they call me up at home. so its really in our hands as to how dependent we are on technology.
@ellovire (409)
28 Jul 11
Wow, how amazing to know that you are not dependent on mobile phones like everyone else! Congratulations on that. I am guilty of carrying cellphone all the time. My work requires me to have it with me ALL THE TIME, even while sleeping LOL. Believe me, at wee hours in the morning, inquiries of clients still come in.
@anurag3786 (6267)
• India
25 Jul 11
This generation is depending on mobile phones and computers. So if there are no mobile phones and computers then there is no mean of life. Because we are too addicted of these 2 things. Every work is depending on these things. Because mobiles phones are very useful things and we can talk to anyone even we are anywhere. And without computers technology don’t stands because every company and institutions is depend on computers. And also many important deals are continuing through computers. So if there is no computer and cell phone is this world then their life will be very difficult.
@ellovire (409)
26 Jul 11
I totally agree with you, too. Life will be very difficult without cellphones and computers.
@Rallon (441)
• United States
25 Jul 11
I saw a news report earlier this week that said trying to go without computers and the internet is just as hard as quitting smoking or drinking. Wow, we sure have become addicted to technology! I would really feel in the dark if I couldn't get my daily dose of news via the internet. I probably could go back to not having a cell phone, but it would also be very difficult as I have come to rely heavily on it as well. I have kind of become set in my ways in that I seem to view the same websites faithfully everyday to learn about what is going on in the world. Really don't want to imagine life without these great breakthroughs!
@ellovire (409)
26 Jul 11
We have become so dependent with the latest techonology -- cellphones and computers particularly -- that schools now a days are teaching students as young as kindergarten familiarize themselves with computers, and parents are not that secured if their kids do not own a cellphone because they cannot check on them every now and then.
@mantis36 (4219)
• Philippines
26 Jul 11
then back to the old drawing board.... as we know it already that powerplants, airplanes and ships, satellites, adding machines, calculators, printing press, factories, industries are all running by computers....
26 Jul 11
We was once on a vacation, its on an island wheres theres no wifi and cellphone signal, its odd totally unbearable, but after 2 days of withdrawal from digital world, it feels great, life's peaceful,then we start to be aware of everything around us...nice to be like that once in awhile.