The Endless Enigma........for 15 years or so, the only significant technological advance was from b/w to 'color'....then screens got squarer and larger than 21".......25" screens ruled for a while.....then the inundation of 'improvements'.......surround sound and HDTV........I've had more TV's in the past ten years than in my entire lifetime, before them........I've hit a 'wall', so to speak, now.......curved, 4K OLED units with wireless streaming, built-in surveillance cameras and ever-listening microphones......and, of course, more confabulations to keep 'service providers' in your wallet! I'm 'behind' the Orwellian demands, although there IS an interest, due to being perpetually bombarded with Media Propaganda and the promised ability to watch just about everything ever filmed.....an appeal, certainly......At my age, however, the tech involvement, that I would have 'gotten into' in my 20's or 30's, is both more challenging, annoyingly complex, expensive and time-consuming.......Watching birds and furry critters, bugs and bats, flowers growing and the wind in the trees is being displaced by watching phone screens and 110" UHD TVs......which are bolstering the sale of big, adjustable, heated and cooled mattresses upon which to wile away Life in pursuit of passive media obsession and 'being entertained'......And, to think....in 1961, 'stereos' with swing-out speakers and drop-down turntable and a battery-powered FM radio were my only concern....and....wall switch light dimmers, naturally......I'm frustrated enough by my OLYMPUS DSLR, which is more complicated to operate than assembling a Maserati from 'parts bags'.........
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