50 Things We Don’t Do Anymore Because of Technological Advancements

[DonCorleo]

If you’re 20 years old or over you’ve probably had a taste of what life was like before technology took over everything. I remember the days before DVD’s and video streaming, having to use VHS, tuning them and recording stuff on to them. Before mobile phones exploded there used to be lots of public telephones everywhere, usually you’d see a whole bunch of them sitting on the street or shopping centre. It’s weird when you think about a life without mobile phones and internet. A lot has changed very quickly and the next generation will find unbelievable how we used to live.

 

[papasmerf]

listening to the serial programs on the radio

TV stations going off the air around midnight

The introduction of UHF television signals.

5 tube radios

scooters made from a 2x4 and an old roller skate.

Playing outside all day and being home when the streetlights came on

BOONESFARM wine

String Ray bikes

 

[FUKUMAN]

Can someone make the picture bigger please.

 

[JBelushi]

Can someone make the picture bigger please.

Links works for me.

 

[Transient]

Who buys Playboy or Penthouse any more? :rofl!:

 

[papasmerf]

drop a dime to make a call

Rotary dial phones

never worried when playing cowboys and Indians we would get arrested

playing with cap guns

Sling shots

Learning to shoot an arrow

Rifle teams in high school

 

[Transient]

drop a dime to make a call

Rotary dial phones

never worried when playing cowboys and Indians we would get arrested

playing with cap guns

Sling shots

Learning to shoot an arrow

Rifle teams in high school

Not sure the role that technology has played in ending these activities.

 

[papasmerf]

Not sure the role that technology has played in ending these activities.

modern paranoia is the reason

 

[Transient]

Still don't see the connection to technological advancements?

 

[papasmerf]

Still don't see the connection to technological advancements?

Tech has brought about a complexity where the simple things are replaces but gadgets.

When I was a kid if you sat in front of the idiot box all day you were likely sick or not real bright.
Today simple play is abandoned for that same box or the computer.

Imagination is not required to be a character in a fantasy anymore.

So today the simple game of cops and robbers is now on video

Sling shots replaced by game boys

 

[papasmerf]

That makes sense. The statement about modern paranoia being a result of the advancement of technology threw me a bit.

give it some thought but think of it in 1960's and 1970's temperament as opposed to today's

 

[blackram]

Still don't see the connection to technological advancements?

A lot of those role play games, such as cowboys and indians, have been replaced by role-play video games.

 

[Transient]

Yes. On that one my question was the "we would get arrested" comment and how technology had influenced it. Papa supplied his reasoning.

 

[papasmerf]

Yes. On that one my question was the "we would get arrested" comment and how technology had influenced it. Papa made his explanation.

over the past few decades a movement to vilify simple children's game has been conducted through electronic media.
thus the tech connection in a simple form

 

[Transient]

The same could have been done through TV or print media. That's a stretch.

 

[blackram]

Who reads newspapers or magazines anymore?

Nobody needs to manually adjust the choke in a car carburetor anymore. They were first replaced with automatic chokes, and then the whole carburetor was replaced by fuel injectors completely.

For that matter, manual transmissions in a car are becoming a thing of the past. Although automatics have been around since the 1930's, there was always a good reason to keep using manuals for 60 or 70 years, such as efficiency, speed, etc. These days, lock-up torque converters in automatics make them as efficient as manuals. Speed-wise, again lockup automatics are nearly as good as manuals in the hands of a professional driver, and better than a manual in the hands of a non-pro driver. In North America, automatics have been in 90% of cars for 50 years at least, but they still kept manuals in Europe and Asia, but now even they are at least 80% automatics now. Very little true manuals around anymore.

 

[IFUSEEKAMY]

I can't make out all the pics but I think there's only a handful that I really don't do anymore. I guess I'm stuck in the dark ages?

 

[papasmerf]

The same could have been done through TV or print media. That's a stretch.

you think kids from the past 30 years actually read print media?

 

[Transient]

If the current technology did not exist, yes. Assuming the topic being "things we don't do because of technological advancement" was what we were addressing. And it's not the kids worried about being arrested, that is an adult concern placed upon that activity. That being said, I see your point and accept your point of view.