The technological blues jam

I wonder how they survived back then. What did they do? You see back than there was no electricity, no TV's, no internet, no video games, no phones, no air conditioning, not even refrigerators or washing machines, nothing!!! The kids must have been bored all day long, nothing to do! The Adults must have been miserable without all the luxuries we have today. We are so lucky. We've got it all.

Most of them lived in dark houses made of stone or wood and the floors were not more than the earth itself. We live in solid homes with the highest quality of construction, we choose between wood, tile, or carpet floors. We can now even put heating under our floors to warm our cold feet. They used to escape the heat by finding the shade of a tree; we click a button on our multi-system air-conditioning systems.

In order to eat they would have to go out in groups to hunt down their meals. The Villagers would than gather together to finish off the prize, you see they didn't have fridges to keep the leftovers. We can order the finest of cuisines from the touch of a few buttons on our internet. Today we can even buy meals that come in boxes that can last on the shelf for years, within moments our electro-neuron microwaves give us a hot tasty meal.

The kids back than had to make up games to play, mostly out of sticks and various size stones. They didn't have Milton-Bradley, Game boys, or even Atari!!!!!! We now have the choice of thousands of board games, but why even use them when all the games and entertainment one could possibly imagine are on the internet. They had to deal with all the pains of playing with one another, sharing, and having to be nice to each other. Our kids can play against the computer. The computer never complains, you don't have to share with it, and most of the time it behaves just fine. All in the comfort of our cozy homes!!!

Back than they had to deal with living amongst all of the family. I mean everyone: aunts, cousins, grand-parents, second cousins even! You see they didn't have transportation back than like we do. Where ever they were born, they usually lived their whole lives there. To go on any type of trip was a big deal, the whole town knew about it. We very rarely live in the same town or state as our parents. Families are spread out across the world. To visit one another we hop in a big metal vessel that flies across the skies to where ever we want to go in no time. We can speak to them when ever we want on the telephone, email, instant messenger, or even by teleconferencing. Our warm words and thoughts are rushed at an ever high speed through small wires to loved ones around the globe.

Most problems they had turned out to be everyone's problems. The village had to figure out a solution. They had to work together! We have specialists for practically every problem that could possibly arise. They come right to our own home to take care of it, the neighbors don't even have to find out about it. For those that choose they can even take care of the problem themselves with the many 'self help' on line guides.

There wasn't much privacy back than! family, friends, and neighbors were in your hair all the time. The only escape was to find a secluded spot outside the village. We can sometimes manage to go days without speaking to anyone if we want. We have balconies and nice yards to go relax, but there is always the risk of seeing a neighbor or peer, or even worse having to speak to them. Today we use our balconies and yards only when we buy and sell our homes. We have everything we could ever want within the four walls of our homes, we don't ever have to leave.

Can you imagine what they had to go through to make a loaf of bread? We push a button on our electronic bread makers. They had to comfort each other with any back or neck pains, we click the 'ultra mega sonic message cycle' on our automatic electric message chairs. They had to cheer up their peers when they were down, we have books and cds to tell us how great we are. If that doesn't help we have special engineered pills that make us feel great!! The choice of foods they had to eat were very limited, we choose between fine meats, vegetarian delights, micro-biotic, raw food diets, and pill supplements that fill any gap.

How could one possibly make it through the day without all the goodies we have today! We have to feel sorry for them and the hell they must have gone through!! How un-happy they must have been. So we say thank you to technology and smile as we sip our espresso from our very own automatic 'in-home' espresso machines.