Another thought along the lines of the integration of technology now is something I've been dealing with for a little bit. My dad actually didn't have a smartphone until last summer, and he didn't have any wifi fed to his "dumb" phone either (not that it would have made much of a difference given how slow it was). He was extremely resistant to getting a smartphone, insisting that he didn't need it and that all that newfangled technology was degrading to our society. He disliked seeing me, my brother, and my mom getting smartphones and then seeing us so attached to them throughout the day. He also liked the 3-day-lasting battery life of his current phone. In the end though, society wore him down.
He couldn't use entire online platforms like Venmo or Snapchat (he was jealous that I always sent my mom snaps) or location or messaging services to their full extent. This included Google Maps, banking apps, or Kakaotalk (the app Koreans use to talk to friends and family). He was especially concerned about Kakaotalk because it meant he couldn't talk to his family at his home in Korea. People would email him for business and not understand why he would take a while to answer his emails since he didn't have a smartphone pinging that he had an email, so his job standing also suffered (especially since he's a computer engineer). When everyone else was adapted to this new technology, my dad was the unusual one for not having a smartphone, and all the new behaviors that come about from having a smartphone flew over his head. In the end, he admitted that there were too many quickly arising obstacles to continue not getting a smartphone and gave in reluctantly. It's kind of depressing, because my dad still sort of despises his new smartphone, but uses it anyways to go along with society's flow. It's illuminating as to how new technologies can change and force society to depend on them to the point that not having them is a legitimate handicap.
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