Sometimes I stopped to think about the high degree in which technology is entering our homes. I will understand the use of technology more or less sophisticated devices, electronic components and with varying degrees of complexity in its use. Scissors would be a mechanical appliance while a simple coffee grinder would be a mechanical-electrical device that needs no instructions to be handled. But the devices that fill our homes today are far from this supposed simplicity. It is no longer a flood, but an invasion of that we can hardly resist.
remember a great cartoon of Forges on which was a person sitting on the couch and started to play around a lot of beeps that rendered him insane. Will we ever had this happen? I have not managed to find it and I have asked my daughter to do one, you're at it, here's an advance, but would not further delay the delivery.
If I roll back to the rooms of the house in my childhood, I remember few or no items that leave the field of mechanics. The house was not even in the capital or even in a remote village, let's put an average of that time in the middle of last century. In a small apartment we lived seven people, you know, based on bunk beds in the rooms. Not to be there was not refrigerated, through its role called a box with chicken wire icebox to the courtyard in the coldest part of the house. The kitchen is fed from coal and charcoal chips purchased in the neighborhood. The other components were the crockery, cutlery, glasses and cooking utensils stored in the cupboard. All mechanical static or at best, because if we wanted to crush some garlic, the system was put in a mortar and stoke over and over again to undo. When after some years appeared in the famous cooking gas cylinder, there was a slightly more sophisticated element which was the heater that supplied hot water to sink and shower, a great invention located in the bathroom. The sophistication of these heaters was reduced his on-off and little else. There is junk in the house who have been with us for a while, like the refrigerator but is becoming less a drawer dedicated to cool and preserve food. And are equipped with programs, freezing zone, automatic evaporation and will not be strange to see in the future that we announce that they by themselves will be able to connect to the Internet and order food directly to the supermarket to be missing.
And if we pass to another of the rooms of the house, the living room or dining room, not games, so that we will have. All I remember is a radio, for those of valves, where we heard the serial "The Porretta, "Matilde Conesa, Perico and PeriquÃn" or "You are formidable." Had little substance to handle the radio. Soon appeared on television in black and white, with two channels and little to learn to handle it. And in the room or bedroom of the house, no nothing, at most a mechanical watch these two bells on top that made you leap came as the estimated time.
slowly, continuously, changes have been dizzying. And we have a house full of appliances that handle as we can, often using a few of its features and capabilities, but somehow everyone in the house makes a different use according to their needs and if you need something called who understood, is something else. Returning to the kitchen there are plenty of pots filled with electronics and even remote controls that make our life easier but we require the effort of learning to use. The washer is not that simple, let the dishwasher or microwave or conventional oven. But that's not all, since there may be a blender, a vacuum cleaner that runs alone the house, a refrigerator, an electronic scale weighing of food or a warning that one program will check back. Do not forget the blender, chopper, automatic potato peeler or even a electric fryer, in addition to the fire of the kitchen has been transformed into an electric induction heating in which we can put your hand without getting burned up but is on and the plates and have become centers of iron. And last but not least there might be a pet, like a bunny, whose cage may be equipped with a programmable feeder will not have to remember every day to put food.
If we leave the room, the devices that populate it up a group that gives you dizzy just thinking about. And each unit is a world when handling. Instruction books that we read over at the time of purchase, once they arrived to be quite bulky and Hogan did not even accompany the aircraft and we have to consult on a CD in the computer or the Internet. A "simple" Current TV requires an entire course to bring it up and something else if the want to take advantage. Not to mention a multimedia hard drive or a sound chain. Impossible to know fully well how to have a picture of remote controls that could not quite catch when we need.
leave by the end the king of the household appliances: the personal computer. Born in 1980, is now partner and on more than one unit in many households, whose members spend several hours a day watching him interact with mail, see the balance of accounts or simply by typing in a blog like this. Where are the typewriters, mechanical, and carbon paper to make copies?. Operate a computer, a user level, can be relatively easy, but it's a complex world that someone in the house, or a neighbor, you have to devote many hours to know how to install programs, adapt, configure the router or email or just fix something that is not working as it should. In this area we have generated, I say in my case, not a few enemies, friends who call me to go out for a beer on your house and step ... .. will "take" an "eye" to the computer does not work. A friend of mine tells a true story in this connection. He insisted this friend his wife to come down and take a look at the neighboring PC 5 th because he was not working e-mail. After much hesitation, came down and he manages as he could the mailer. The following week's message and the request were different, "the neighbor says that since you played the computer ....
As thinking beings, we evolve and adapt to our progress in improving the quality of life. But everything has to be a restraint and our home should be a haven of peace where we startled a beep here and another there, where we did not create panic and anxiety to put a particular recording television show, where we assume the faults of the devices as logical and normal situations. It is increasingly necessary to find the balance between the natural and the technological and do not forget to wash the dishes by hand is a moment that we can use for reflection.
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