Recalling life in pre-digital age
PRE-GOOGLE you had to find a book‚ blow off the dust‚ open it and page through for information‚ only to not find what you were looking for. Times have changed.
“When it comes to functions‚ people don’t send hand-delivered invitations anymore‚ and this used to make you feel special and encourage you to make the effort of showing up.
“One of my pet hates is that Uber drivers seem to have become robots who vigilantly follow the GPS instead of looking around for pickups; it is almost as if they are not conscious of the world around them.
“And the biggest irony in the world is that autocorrect has turned millennials into the worst spellers‚” says fashion designer and founder of Fundudzi Craig Jacobs.
Printing photographs
Every memory is a selfie away‚ stored in our devices with no urge to get a hard copy. However‚ our parents had to get cameras‚ dress us up and photograph us – there was no space for random pictures.
Using public phones
Every corner had a public phone meant and used for one purpose: making calls.
Sending hand-written letters
You hardly know your loved one’s handwriting‚ everything is typed.
Solving a Rubik cube or playing with actual toys
Growing up, toys were things we really cared about. But in this day and age children access virtual toys on their phones.
Being patient and tolerant
For some reason technology has taken away the virtue of waiting.
Simple things like a slow wi-fi connection‚ late replies and queues can easily tick us off.
People don’t queue so much at banks anymore.
Telephone books
Yellow pages used to be the most important book in the house with its list of contacts. One hardly sees or uses it anymore.
Grandma’s recipe books
Grandmothers used to have secret food recipes from their mothers and would gladly share them on special occasions‚ but now we simply google secret recipes that are open secrets on the Internet.
Losing people’s business cards
Remember when you would lose people’s business cards? Well‚ nowadays there are “scan and save” apps on phones to store the contact information on your database.
Watching TV
We watch our phones.