I remember my Dad getting frustrated with a video recorder when I was younger and it came ever so easily to me. I'm actually quite good with some modern tech. I have to use a fair bit in my job and I don't have a problem with that. It's more the stuff that we are forced to do to carry on enjoying things. Football tickets are a nightmare these days as we've all experienced. It's no better than when we used to queue around Maine Road. It was more fun, we had a laugh, made friends and spoke to each other and it made memories. Now its sanitised with a click on the laptop, waiting in line whilst it counts down and then crashes and you start all over again.
Another example and its only a small thing but its something that Ive done for the best part of 40yrs has been taken away. Im somebody who likes to go to live gigs and I have over 700 ticket stubs but that's now almost gone unless I buy a souvenir ticket which ticketmaster offers (another way of making money) and everything is now downloaded onto the phone. It's a part of being a music collector that has now gone. Kids of the future won't have that and understand that. In the same way nobody will ever spend a night taking out a shoebox of old photos and having a great time going through them reminiscing. Everyone has thousands of photos on their phones that are hardly if ever looked at after 10 minutes of being taken. There's a whole lot more of these type of things that in my opinion shows we have lost some of the pleasures of life.
And then at the other end of the scale we have the impact smart phones are having on our young people spending on average 7/8 hours on a school day and up to 19 hours on weekend days on TikTok, Snapchat, youtube, gaming etc. which is all to a detrimental effect which leads to disconnect. This is way too complicated and detailed for here and Ive drifted from the initial subject but its all a part of the bigger picture that is being missed, read the anxious generation by Johnathan Haidt where we have reached a crisis point with technology and the next generation. Read a book now theres a novel idea!