subject title is a skit off 'Art for Art's Sake' song by the group 10cc
OK, tech for tech's sake?
I ask this as a tech novice eg (yesterday, between me & the laptop, just no copy & paste no matter how hard I tried 
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I'm old school eg If it ain't broke don't mend it ... & ... make do or do without
I currently have an old 2nd hand colour portable tv in the living room ... so ... what if I have to go right up to the screen to read the menu, text is a bit out of focus ... & ... picture goes off screen either side of tv set so-to-speak ... it's on my to-do list that hopefully atround Christmastime I will be able to treat myself to a flat screen tv ... but ... it doesn't gnaw at me that I have an old tv ... I'm not programmed / driven to have the latest tech or anything else for that matter ... & ... doesn't all this 'throwaway tech'? cost lots of money?
I'm really, really curious as to what people on here think about my comments above
I know tech ain't gonna go away
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I will go a bit off topic here but it really does relate to people's perception of what you want or need. (be it tech or anything else)
Many years ago we decided we would move house and go upmarket on the property ladder.
No-one thought that was a bad thing. However before we did that, we came to Spain and decided instead we would buy an apartment out here.Went back to the UK and raised the money for the apartment by re-mortgaging our existing house.
It was amazing to see the change in peoples reactions to that decision.
The same people who thought it was great to buy a big house in the UK.....thought we were a bit snobby to buy an apartment abroad....(The fact we paid less to do this was irrelevant to some narrow minded people)
We were asked many times why we needed to do this. Our reply was... we didn't need to...we wanted to
(Incidentally it was the best investment we ever made) 
Something in a similar vein Cleoriff
a year or 2 after I was married my x-husband wanted to gain a post graduate degree in Urban Design
he gained his ILA (Institute of Lancscape Architects) qualification externally whilst working full time in Leeds then Rochdale ..... he couldn't get funding for this ...so ... we sold out house in Castleton, Rochdale to finance him a year course at the then Oxford Polytechnic
Whereas before I'd been seen as a good, loyal wife & a friend good to be around with ..... I was now seen as a stupid person ... & ... told so
my x-husband got me out for a 'holiday' amongst the course students, to the Estoril coast of Portugal when he was specialising in Urban Design = hot countries
he qualified well ... went out to the Sharjah UAE (United Arab Emirates) working for the Dubai municipality ... it all was an good life experience ... BUT ... my marriage began to go crook out there
Anyways, all's turned out well & for the better ... its all water under the bridge, old family news 
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Won't be long before doctors surgeries are a thing of the past, everything done in the way of diagnosis by implants and computer.
I love technology but it came into my life at the grand age of 49 so I had a life at one time! Kids are growing up with it, learning about it in school, showing off the latest devices to friends and strangers alike. Their upbringing now makes it a necessity to own the latest tech as a vital part of learning, of social integration and of leisure time.
Me? If I can walk to the pub, answer the very few calls and texts I am likely to receive and get on the Internet then I'm happy sitting alone in my own little world. This is me, I'm coping with what life as thrown at me. Happiness is whatever place you are in at any given time which is bearable and pain free.
No amount of the latest tech will make a scrap of difference to your ability to cope with the true meaning of life. Maybe you get a buzz, a five minute feelgood factor but live life while you can. Get away from the 50 inch TV, lift your nose away from that 5 inch screen which has taken over your life....in fact, GET a life.
Do I envy these people whose world is ruled by all things technical? Not a bit, I'm happy that I was born in an era where we actually learned to live independently, spoke to people face to face. I do marvel at the dedication, skill and technological minds of those people who have made such wonderful advancement in medical science, we have come a long way in that respect.
But bear in mind, it was 46 years ago when man allegedly landed on the moon, we could speak to them....as far as we have advanced, at times we cannot get a phone signal in our own sitting room. Isn't science wonderful.
