How many times have you booked airport taxi Stansted services on the Internet only to make a call before the flight takes off to find out whether the booking has indeed been finalized on not? Well, herein lies the biggest flaw of the Internet. It will never give you the satisfaction that you have interacted with a human being. At the end of the day, the e-mail you send or the online form you fill it is nothing but a conversation between you and a computer. Computers can make mistakes. Computers can cause mess ups. Computers are not reliable, at least not as reliable as human beings.
Bagging my laptop up the other day for its date with apple mac support london , I realized that actually, while technology is progressing very rapidly, we are, in fact, getting lazier, and lazier…
I say this for a few reasons. Which are as follows:
1) While I take my computer to the repair shop only when absolutely necessary, not everyone is like me: I’ve noticed an alarming trend in the past couple of years. People taking their computer to get fixed when really hardly anything is wrong with it. For me, if there’s a problem I’ll Google it. But for many people the answer is just to spend money and get it fixed. Time is of the essence now, and gone are the days of bothering to learn to do something on your own.
I just prefer to make it all myself, even if it doesn’t taste as good…
2) Letters: nobody sends letters anymore – it’s all about emails. But this is nothing compared to…
3) What happened with Birthdays? There used to be a time, before Facebook, when you would call a friend to wish them happy birthday. Nowadays that doesn’t happen nearly enough. Instead, you’ll receive a string of messages on your FB wall which is supposed to be the same thing. Well, people, let me tell you that it ISN’T!
4) Bus rides: how many times have you seen someone running to catch the bus and then, one minute later, stepping off it again? To me, this literally doesn’t make any sense at all. Here’s a thought – use your legs people, use your LEGS!
5) Exercise: this is maybe the biggest one of all. Before gyms were on every street corner, exercise meant getting outside in the great outdoors. Now? Why bother? Instead you can go and spend your time in a sweaty room with loads of people who are in their own little world, plugged into their music. Is it just me who thinks this is a big step backwards in human evolution? Maybe. But that does not mean that I am the one who is WRONG!
6) Pasta sauces: yes, that’s right, in at number 6 are pasta sauces — the most pointless and sad invention out there (I know, I know, I am being harsh, but I just prefer to make it all myself, even if it doesn’t taste as good). Instead of making your own by simply cutting up a few tomatoes, now you can just buy the whole thing. You can even buy paper plates while you are at it, for that complete generic experience we have all come to learn to love. Truly tragic.
