High Tech

So I'm a baby boomer and grew up with Barbie dolls and watching The Wonderful World of Disney shows. My most fasinating thing growing up was trying to figure out how Tinker Bell held all that pixey dust as she was flying around.

This day of technology is mind boggling to me. Yet I've become spoiled to using my laptop. Email is a way for me to keep in touch with those I don't have the time to visit personally or live too far away to visit. It's a way to be able to keep in touch with my relatives that live in other states and I love that.
So when the little pop up window suddenly appears in my face telling me that my email server is not responding I want to yell and throw a tantrum!
How dare it not work!
How dare it tell me that my emails cannot be sent! How will I know what is going on in every one's life! What will I do with myself tonight while I wait for my TV shows to start!
Do I need a new laptop with all the new fancy bells and whistles? Do I need more whatever it is that is needed to create more space inside this thing?
Or do I need to call up the cable company that I get my email account through and yell at them personally?
Why is my laptop making a humming noise right now? Is it going to explode?!!!

I think that they purposely make these addictive wonderful gadgets to only last a short couple of years.
Whoever is smart enough to make these things is certainly smart enough to know that we will become addicted to them and that if they make them to only last a short time that we will certainly go buy another one that is much more high tech and much more expensive. They have made it that way also......that there are no other choice but to buy the "new and improved" model. That is why these people are billionaires!
Yet we who sit here hour after hour fascinated with all the wonderful things our new gadget does lives paycheck to paycheck as we fry our brains trying to figure out how to use it!