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[sophiaserpentia]

Well, let's see what the results of yesterday's poll point to.

The devices that appear to be the most essential to those who have them are:
Broadband internet
Portable digital music player
CD player
About 50-60% of people who have these consider them essential.

The next tier included:
TiVo
DVD player
PDA
cable/satellite TV
About 20-25% of people who have these consider them essential.

Cordless phones/cell phones, digital cameras, and CD burners were only considered essential by about 10% of those who have them. WRT phones, that is an interesting result. Are people not so happy with being accessible everywhere they go?

26% of the people who responded said they could do without any of these devices. I suppose perhaps many of you are, like me, actually old enough to remember life before these wonders came along.

Comments

life before broadband

[rothko.livejournal.com]

eh, i'm old enough too. old enough to remember having to connect to the internet with a 2400 baud modem, old enough to remember when there was no web (gasp!) -- which is why i couldn't imagine having to go back...

as far as cell phones -- for me, it's not that i don't really want to be accessible everywhere, it's more that i just don't *need* to be. i don't have a job where i need to be on call for anything, and my friends can usually reach me at home. if i know somebody might want to reach me when i'm out during the weekend or evenings or whatever, i'll turn the phone on, but otherwise, it mostly stays off.

[soulsong.livejournal.com]

Though I put down broadband and cellphone as 'essential', this is really only because of my job - working from home as a software developer and all that. Otherwise, I'm old enough to remember not having any of those things.

I do like being able to look up anything instantly via google though. I find when I'm away from home I have to make lists of things to look up when I get back, because it frustrates me that I can't learn pretty much anything I want to.

I wonder what schoolwork in the age of the internet is like? What used to take hours of research can now be achieved in 0.00000053478 seconds, retrieving 1,247,453 results.

[arbiteroftruth.livejournal.com]

i'm old enough to remember campfires and berries.

OLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[azaz-al.livejournal.com]

(she shrieks)
OLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kumbunny.livejournal.com]

I am old enough to remember a day without these devices.

Most of the devices I thought "essential" I do not even have!

How mental is that?

k.