How Have Technology Advancements Since 2020 Improved Your Life?'

I remember when my dad bought me a TV in 1990 right before I left to go to grad school in Oklahoma. He said it was so I could "know what was going on in the world." That TV is now used to watch VHS tapes in. In 1990, I was going to get more educated, and back then being more educated didn't necessarily mean being more tech savvy. I still watch VHS movies on a VCR with that 1990 TV. Perhaps all those VHS tapes I should include in the next slew of stuff I get rid of now that I'm trying to downsize. I haven't watched a movie in quite a while, actually pretty much since Pat died in 2021 except on TUBI. Well, no, I watched a movie with my brother when he came to town in October, but I can't really wait around for him to visit again before I watch another movie. It could be a very long wait. A couple of things come to mind. One is, how has my life improved since I "know (more) about what's going on in the world" than I did in 1990, and (2) How has my life improved since all the technological advances since 1990? Probably any one of you reading this could give me a rundown about all the changes in technology since then, and I would be just about as enlightened as a frog, literally, sitting on a lily iPad, that's me. That was a typo; I meant a lily pad, not a lily iPad. But I think it does conjure up an interesting image, for some imaginative designer type. Before 2020 I still had a flip phone and was quite content with that, only they kept making upgrades that were really downgrades until I was forced to get a smartphone which at that time meant an iPhone and an iPad (because the iPad was on sale for $15 a month). A dear friend told me how drastically my life would change, and they weren't lying, but I'm not sure it has been for the better. I'm not going to go on and on along this bunny trail, I only wanted to make the point that, well, I just don't care about technological advances, and anyone who knows me knows that to be the case. As a matter of fact technological advances are probably what I am least interested in in the entire universe. And as for all those movies, why am I keeping them? We've probably all seen that Facebook post about the three phases of life: wanting stuff, getting stuff and getting rid of stuff. Well, truer words were never spoken. For many years now, at least since I moved back to Kansas in 2006, I have carried box after box to thrift stores to give things away. But they don't go away fast enough. I am actually going to probably have to act on that impulse to throw some of those movies into a box and take them somewhere. For your information, God's Storehouse doesn't really want VHS tapes. They used to, but they don't anymore. However, I think you can still take them there, and perhaps some of those many trucks out front take the things they don't sell somewhere else, I don't know. I really should ask, but I won't be asking tonight. I have observed that Goodwill still sells VHS Tapes. The library used to, but they stopped selling them long ago as well. Because, you see, all those people are interested in technological advances, whereas, I am not. I am interested in reading and writing, mostly, and that does not require technological advances. If I could I'd use a typwriter to write with instead of a word processor, even though I must admit I have kind of grown fond of the word processor action. I just don't like the idea of everything being computerized. I don't like the way Windows will no longer "support" Windows 10 after October, and my laptop is "not compatible" with Windows 11, so you know what that means. I will have to buy a new laptop. This to me is abusive and unjust, not to mention unnecessary, but it is what it is, and this is the world we live in. So, to answer the first two questions I asked myself (you can ask yourself, too, if you want to), how has my life improved since I "know what is going on in the world?" To be honest, I'm not sure it has improved my life at all. When I was writing for weekly newspapers (2005-2008), it was part of my job, in a way, but it was only about the towns that I was living in--not the whole world, and I wasn't online constantly, and I didn't have a smartphone, like I said, until 2020. Anyway, reporting on that level is all about your local community, not the entire world, and when you think about it, that's all that most of us are involved with anyway. The next question, "How has my life improved because of technological advancements?" Since I am not focused on entertainment, technological advancements have not improved my life at all. I don't have a big flat screen, I don't have cable, and whatever more modern advancements that are involved with that. Oh, I forgot to tell you, I quit caring about what was next in technology when they moved from VHS to DVDs. I can play DVDs on my laptop but I don't like watching movies on my laptop. Don't bother telling me all my options, I really don't want to know. I am grateful for the invention of the printing press, and laptop computers, and that's about it, okay? Even my blog is not fancy and never will be fancy. I just don't care about all the fancy stuff. And so I'm going to close this now and this is about all I have "on my mind" right now. Oh, I did get emails from Thriftbooks, and my two books I ordered were projected (one historical fiction about Cynthia Ann Parker and one about her son Quanah Parker, the last chief of the Cherokees) to arrive today and yesterday, but they did not come today or yesterday, so I will look forward to them after work perhaps tomorrow. And, finally, I really love that old adage, "Keep it Simple, Stupid," and I hope this doesn't offend you. My laptop pretends to be interested in whether or not I want it to update now or after I am done with this, and you and I both know it does not care. It just wants to keep you interacting with it. It's all part of the grand plan to get rid of as many people as they can and replace you with a robot. I'm not going for that. How about you?