Fortunately, my watch has an ETA movement, a winding stem and I can still read a map.
How many people can follow a map and compass any more? Or have a road atlas in their car?
How many of our vehicles are hooked into 'OnStar' or similar that lets someone at a console turn the car off at the flick of a switch. Anywhere?
How about the money you have in the bank or your line of credit on your visa. That money is just an electron away from vaporizing forever. Or if someone doesn't want you to access it... boom, gone.
How many have phone numbers of their friends, family and contacts still written in a little phone book... not saved on a smartphone? What happens if someone decides to shut the phone down? Like in an office at Google or Apple? Do you even remember more than 3 phone numbers by heart any more? Do you still have a Yellow Pages or even a local phone book in your house? Or a land line?
Lots of things that we take for granted these days could go away at the flip of a switch. Your power. Your Internet. Your TV. Your ballistics calculator.
How many can still function in a completely analog world? Who still has a car, truck or Jeep with a carb and points?
Just some questions that may be worth asking in the future.
My watch not talking to my phone is small potatoes compared to what hackers or, worse, woke employees at Google could do to most any of us. In an instant. Remember, the ANTIFA in the street are the ones we see. Big Tech is riddled with their soulmates. Just waiting to unleash their computer skills on you. And do things that you agreed to let them do... which you don't know you agreed to... but you did when you didn't read 90 pages of text before clicking "I Agree" to the terms of service on your phone, your car, your watch, your TV... you name it.
Brave new world, indeed!!!
Sirhr
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