![]() Vivien, my coworker who sat in the cubicle across from me looked over with mild interest. ![]() then went black as it shut itself off and rebooted. I hissed through gritted teeth as I sat at my desk during a particularly slow shift at work as my phone once again froze. I hadn’t done anything wrong, and I had good antivirus software installed on it, so the fact that a less than two year old phone was going on the fritz annoyed me to no end. I would be standing or sitting somewhere, scrolling through social media on my phone, when it would glitch up and freeze on me. I was excited about it all as well hearing about a new leap in progress always excited me greatly, as it meant a step closer to the future I had seen in cartoons as a kid such as The Jetsons. ![]() everything from broadband internet, to smartphones, to smart TVs and cars with self driving capabilities. I moved with the times, adopting new technology as it came along. I wasn’t what you would call a stickler for old tech. And safer.Īnd for a while, I actually believed it. all the while hearing that the new versions were better, more efficient. everything from analog television, to copper phone lines get phased out and replaced. I grew up watching the old technology of the 20th Century. As someone who was born in the early 90s, I was alive to witness the world take the jump into the digital age, following the turn of the millennium. That was the phrase I would had almost ceremoniously drilled into my head from a rather young age.
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