The 30 technologies we can't live without

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kefkat

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HARD though it is to imagine life without a washing machine, fridge or toaster, broadband is the technology we value most.
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While a washing machine came third on a list of 30 products which have changed our lives, broadband came first and the internet second.

Email was fourth...one place ahead of the freezer.

The toaster was way down at 20th, behind satellite TV, the iPhone, satnav and Facebook.

The study of 2,000 adults found six in 10 feel they are slow to get the latest technology and a third will only buy replacement items if the old ones are broken.

Many of us “upgrade” a partner more often than we change appliances. Nearly a third of those questioned had a fridge, toaster or washing machine that had outlasted several relationships.

But getting the first dishwasher and switching to an electric toothbrush are among our life-changing moments.

The research was conducted by Hotpoint to mark the launch of its Home IQ campaign which aims to suggest ways to use technology to make our households more efficient.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/493439/30-top-technologies
 
I can and do live with out air conditioning, hair straighters, and I expect I could cope with not using the majority. So I could live with out them but I choose not to, which is the difference.
 
I think there is a good argument to have, for sitting around the camp fire with the suckling pig roasting away under a blanket of stars.
 
Green Tea - 30/7/2014 12:26

I think there is a good argument to have, for sitting around the camp fire with the suckling pig roasting away under a blanket of stars.
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We all agree. You should go and sit around a camp-fire with a suckling pig roasting away. And don't take your phone.
 
I can do without satnav. I've always be blessed with a sense of direction, add either a g A-Z or streetmap online and I'm sorted.
 
So many of those things are related to the others that it's pointless having them as separate items or trying to prioritise them. For example, what use is internet access without something to connect to it, and as nobody uses dial up any more, will someone please explain the difference between broad band and internet, before someone says 3g/4G, that is broad band too, just mobile. A poorly thought out survey/article imo.

 
Yeah crap
Top tech we can't live without is going to be pretty much what we use daily.
5 years ago a Smart phone, Ipad were not on the list.

Shocked no-one says heat - Hot water, Radiators, Oven etc.
 
The only technology I can't do without is myself because it keeps me alive.

Everything else is fluff, a life choice or a retarded belief of keeping up with the Jones's.

I love the fact this planet thinks the internet is now a human right. It says so much about the idiots in charge.
 
I could live without most of them, I do enjoy the use of technology though.

But the actual title is silly, as Ian says, not many years back there were no ipads, smarphones etc.

Few years before that we didn't have mobiles or the internet. I wonder if those days we realised the danger we were in!?
 
That was the title of the article, hence why I used it. Get what you mean. I mean kettle and toaster are in that list. EH! They have been around donkies years
 
Can't? :3: Strange concept, implies defeat without any battle, and not a word I commonly use in life or at work.

The truth is we don't NEED any of it.


 
All i would need is a camping stove a roof over me kids head and plenty of chickens and a cow for Milk and i would be sorted tbh oh and a well.
 
ClivetheVillan - 31/7/2014 14:18

All i would need is a camping stove a roof over me kids head and plenty of chickens and a cow for Milk and i would be sorted tbh oh and a well.
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So you couldn't do without technology then Clive, you need a camping stove ( and presumably fuel for it, which has to be produced some how) a roof, which requires building and all the tools involved in that process and the manufacture of the materials and a well, which is presumably accessed either by a pump or a bucket, not to mention your cocking, eating and drinking utensils and the technology to manufacture your clothes. When you think about it, even a very simple existence requires some level of tech and I've really only scratched the surface with this post.
 
well if it wasn't for modern technology, the company I work for would be very limited in it's business opportunities. Our whole business is totally reliant on computers and the ongoing advancement in things like computer programme software, the internet speeds etc etc.
 
The translations are a bit rubbish but here is an amusing look at the introduction of new technologies. I'm pretty sure it will ring more than a few bells with quite a few on here.


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Yup, agreed votn, starchild... My business also relies on computers and the internet.

But the title (of the article, wasn't having a go at you kefkat for thread title) asks what you couldn't live without.

Hey, I like sky+ but even there I think if I was really really brave I could probably just about live if it wasn't available !!
 
Villan Of The North - 31/7/2014 13:24

ClivetheVillan - 31/7/2014 14:18

All i would need is a camping stove a roof over me kids head and plenty of chickens and a cow for Milk and i would be sorted tbh oh and a well.
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So you couldn't do without technology then Clive, you need a camping stove ( and presumably fuel for it, which has to be produced some how) a roof, which requires building and all the tools involved in that process and the manufacture of the materials and a well, which is presumably accessed either by a pump or a bucket, not to mention your cocking, eating and drinking utensils and the technology to manufacture your clothes. When you think about it, even a very simple existence requires some level of tech and I've really only scratched the surface with this post.
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Smart arse :5: You highlight our dependence on everyday technologies, our societies if ever a Solar Storm would hit and wipe out the electrics would self implode within a short space of time, a few would be able to survive but not me i am afraid, it is a frightening thought :10:

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