Old Tech and New Tech: The Bad, The Good, and The Beauty
Yet another controversial topic of discussion. Technologies such as telecommunication, production line automation and stored media have been around for about a century now. As much as the aforementioned technologies have changed our lives, they, too have changed by such dramatic measures. A common and obvious instance is the phone. First came the landline telephone with its signature dial and its instantly recognizable shape and form. Then came what we now call keypad phones or flip phones with the arrival of wireless communication. A vast amount of its physical aspects has undergone several changes due to the portability it requires, yet it is still somewhat iconic in these days and ages. Most, if not all keypad phones have a pleasing futuristic design which appeals to various aesthetic enthusiasts, and these phones include wireless features, which also makes them usable as a daily driver for those who use phones for calling, texting, streaming media and writing posts or blogs. Nowadays, mainstream phones are those with touchscreens and a flat, monolithic look. Yet its sheer capabilities can hardly be grasped. Having a touchscreen means not being limited to a fixed keyboard layout, adding ease to multilingual and symbolic typing. Being modern also means its processing power also far outweighs that of older models. From the example above, much can be inferred and even more so can opinions deviate and conflict arise out of personal preferences or wants for certain aspects of technologies. If even one hundredth of all technologies were to be compared this way, more than a thousand books worth of screen space would be taken up by less than half of the text itself. I would also like to leave my own opinion on new and old technologies; that they may coexist at the same time and that they compliment each other quite well.
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