Talk To The Telly

So here you will find me the grumpy granddad, the alter ego of the stay at home granddad that looks after the wee one and the house, this is where I sit in my shed and rant at life, when all are out and I get five minutes to myself that is!! I rant everyday at some point but will save most of them for the shed, however once or twice a week I will be letting one or two rants free from the shed and sharing them here, where I hope you will join me!
Is it just me or is the world we live in not changing for the better, is it regressing into something that our ancestors would be quick to recognise?

Now straight away many of you will argue that we have never had it so good, you will point to technology, supermarkets and the fact we all have two cars- well according to some survey somewhere, a survey that also says we have 2.2 kids!!- however those very things are the items that I would argue are sending us back in time.
Take technology , now there is no doubt that we are better off for inventions such as the fridge and central heating systems, that control the temperature all on its own, so even if we are not at home our beer is cold and our sitting room is cosy! That however is not the technology I am talking about, aye I know, I am cherry picking but surely we would be better off if cherry picking had been applied at an earlier stage, a stage before we have come to expect life to run without us trying.

Take our home viewing experience for example, the new smart tellies talk to us, change channels for us and even know what we like to watch once it has been in the house for a couple of days!! My wife aka the law enforcer in my house, has been with me twenty five years and still does not know what I like to watch or eat for that matter! How do we get past that, aye we talk and discover new things about each other, aye even to this day, in the future though it looks like the husband will tell the telly who in turn will inform the wife what he takes in his coffee! It does not stop there, our phones that used to be used to hold a conversation with our friends, now talk to the telly as well, letting it know what time we will be home at and what we would like as our evenings entertainment!!, again a game the law enforcer aka the wife and I have played for years goes a begging! You know the game, guess where I am, will I be home in time for dinner and what will the mood be like! Aye we have all played it! Yes all lost now we have the smart telly running our houses in fact the only thing the telly does not do yet, is speak to the microwave, and start your ping ding dinner!
So the household telly has moved up the food chain and taken away some of life's tasks that used to take some thought backed up be some conversation!

So has all of this made us better off or is it returning us to a time where our ancestors had no need for conversation, I will let you chat among yourselves about that one or if that art has already been lost, just ask your smart telly!