Loads of things have been invented that are good and truly useful but they have also had a much wider effect that ruins the good stuff.

I know it’s a cliche but I’ll start with smartphones. I love mine but I saw 2 folks walking side by side down a road on a beautiful morning both staring down at their phones. Life would be better on balance without them

Whatyagot?

Helicopters. Theres virtually no land they couldn’t open up to anyone rich enough.

Microwave ovens

Helicopters. Theres virtually no land they couldn’t open up to anyone rich enough.

And yet there’s been no free-for-all in the private use of helicopters on every patch of land up and down the country.
Because CAA rules apply to where you can fly and land one.
Balanced against how many lives have been saved all over the world by choppers at sea, in mountains, and other difficult to access areas, not to mention air ambulances, one of which saved my brother’s life after a motorcycle accident.
Sorry, you’ll have to do better than that.
How about guns?

How about guns?

But how would Americans defend themselves against each other?

Cigarettes :/

Hangovers, WTF were they thinking.

650b wheelsize.

1. Smartphones
2. Budget airlines
3. A Thatcherite vision of society in which the car reigns supreme
4. uPVC windows

Internet

On-line advertising.

Internet

you see, that’s where I started but on balance I’m not convinced although it does suck up a lot of my life

Cigarettes is a good one

Baked Beans

Socialists

@ saxon rider i was with you until 4. uPVC windows

1. Smartphones
2. Budget airlines
3. A Thatcherite vision of society in which the car reigns supreme
4.capatalists

The EU

Twitter – the modern equivalent of muttering to yourself

I love mine but I saw 2 folks walking side by side down a road on a beautiful morning both staring down at their phones. Life would be better on balance without them

what do you believe they would have been doing in a smartphone free world?

Work

And the kardashians

Gods, deities, whatever you want to call them. Monarchies. The concept of ‘money’.

Cars for sure

4. uPVC window

Mine are lovely 😀

Easyshag apps. Something really depressing as a concept.

Kanye West
North Korea
Trump
Diet Drinks
Alcohol free Lager (i mean WTF!!!)

In that order….

Ankle bracelets and Religion.

what do you believe they would have been doing in a smartphone free world?

sometimes you talk, sometimes you don’t, sometimes you look at what’s going on around you, sometimes you let your mind wander and dream.

Facebook

Edit:

And press fit BB’s
And DSG gearboxes

Skimlinks

car culture

Sliced bread. Because it seems to be a gold standard in comparisons but is usually a poor excuse for a loaf.

Religion.
Torx screws.
Other languages.

Microwave ovens

without the cavity magnetron you’d be goose stepping to work and zieg heiling mein fuhrer*

*might be over egging the pudding there a bit 😉

smart phones, facebook and twitter

Torx screws

nope. Torx is betterer

650b’ers

Can’t believe no-one’s mentioned nuclear/biological/chemical weapons.
I can cope with ‘normal’ weapons but that other stuff has always scared the crap out of me.

[quotewithout the cavity magnetron you’d be goose stepping to work and zieg heiling mein fuhrer**might be over egging the pudding there a bit [/quote]

I have no issue with the technology nor with multi cavity klystrons. Just don’t like them in the kitchen warming up sub standard meals 8)

Can’t believe no-one’s mentioned nuclear/biological/chemical weapons.

I understand your concern but it’s the “conventional” ones that keep killing people.

This forum – it takes up huge amounts of my spare time!

Coercive power