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[496] Digital Age

It really pisses me off about how people and companies like to brag about this supposed 'digital age' we're living in. Because it seems no matter how many years pass by, computers for example, are not getting any faster. Sure, they have better and faster hardware than they did 10 years ago, but it doesn't make a lick of difference because there is always new, bulky, slow, useless, retardedly intensive software, applications, and operating systems which bog down the computer's performance. My newest computer, manufactured in 2006, does not start up any faster or seem to run any better than my machine from 1999 did. Why is this? And why is it that people love to say technology will only screw up because of something its user does, when this has been total crap for years. Life in the digital age my ass! More like... 'The age of what should be amazingly advanced hardware but we'll find a way to slow it down anyway, and stuff still seems to malfunction for no particular reason'. About the biggest advancement we've had so far are the stupid, huge, home entertainment centers people seem to waste their money on. Only then to bitch about milk and gas prices after they've put themselves in debt trying to look like the classy suburban neighbors that they're not

Posted 10 months ago

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