Technology: The Only Good Thing About Today’s World

Here’s a fascinating graphic that shows the adoption of consumer technology in the typical American home over the last 120 years. If one were to add business and especially medical technology onto this, one would have a complete picture of why, IMO, better gadgetry is really the only thing that makes living in the 21st Century superior to anytime in the past.

Yes, we’re living longer, healthier and more convenient lives, but we’ve paid a terrible price for that, when we consider what’s happened to our society in terms of:

• Dishonesty at the highest ranks of business and government and growth in authoritarian governments

• Chemical addictions

• Denial of science and other forms of ignorance

• Gun violence

• Children addicted to electronics at the expense of social interaction

• Automation replacing humans in the workplace

• Corporate greed and corrupt government causing environmental decay, enrichment of the top 1%, decay of educational standards, and other social ills

There are people who say, “If it wasn’t the 1970s, it wasn’t really living.”  They’re kidding at some level, but they have a point there.