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How much has technology really changed our daily lives?How much has technology really changed our daily lives? We asked a highly wired writer to spend 10 days in the big city living with the technology of 50 years ago. No Web, no cell, no laptop, no ATM card.
(by Larry Smith from PopSci & Illustration by Tavis Coburn).
Mornings are the worst.
The coffee is too weak. The windup alarm clock is too loud. The phone rings, and it might or might not be my mom. There are no new e-mails. There is no hope for a Krispy Kreme. And man, oh man, I miss my Ambien.
Why have I subjected myself to life without a PDA? Why did I agree to a plan that forced me to spend New Year's Day watching the Gators in black and white, while the rest of the civilized world rings in the new year with Hoppin' John and the Orange Bowl in glorious Technicolor (or better yet, on TiVo with full control over instant replay and super slo-mo)? Why, oh why, am I spending the first 10 days of 2004 attempting to work, play and party like it's 1954?
I was born in 1968. One of my mom's favorite photos is of her holding baby me in front of TV images of Buzz Aldrin's first Moon walk. I'm old enough to remember life before PCs and ATMs, but young enough to embrace NetFlix and Wi-Fi'ing at Starbucks. I have 10,000 songs on my hard drive, but I derive mor
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