Devices yes, I’ve thought recently how grateful I am for air-conditioning. Conditioning, now that’s a discussion that’s what I’ve been, conditioned to having a clean house compared to a dirt floor and a solid walled house instead of a tent.
Now on to current day devices , when they work they are great but can I funciton when they don’t work? Do I know how to re-program one? Then there is the foundation, the hidden agenda that might come with one.
We were a stronger people before the new technology , I believe. But can we go back? I remember somewhere reading about a lady that looked back and became a pillar of salt and that is what she is remembered for doing.
My mind is wandering over many memories this morning, I guess. So which device do I use the most? Probably my cellphone, safer than the old phone booth. We use my phone to stay connected to church, doctors, family and friends.
This week tried to learn how to use my Digiland Tablet, was not sucessful through no fault of my own. My device doesn’t like Google.
So here I am tech-less to what I wanted to do this week, maybe another device is in the future.
ElderChicks 
I’m an early adopter and adore almost all of the new technology. I just flew back from a conference in Vegas (ugh) and had a whole library of books in my Kindle app that I could read on my iPad without lugging a ton of carry-on weight and bulk.
But air conditioning? As much as I sometimes appreciate it (I love the heat), I am convinced that air conditioning has ruined civilization as we knew it. When I was a little kid in the 1950s, no one had air conditioning. In the summer, everyone stayed outside. My mom and her friends played scrabble on the front patio while the kids climbed our crabapple tree or played in the sprinkler. We knew our neighbors. We saw them every day. Not just the ones who lived one or two houses away, but the WHOLE BLOCK, and in the houses behind us and across the street too. Now? We run from our air conditioned cars to our air conditioned houses. I have met most of my neighbors only during power outages and blizzards when everyone comes out of their nests and, if only for a short while, becomes a community again.
The whole idea of “community” is definitely changing, and AC is part of the change along with higher tech than AC. You might enjoy science writer Stan Cox’s take on how AC contributed to the rise of the Republican party!