I have a love/hate relationship with modern technology.
I love being able to find out anything I want to know with the press of a few buttons - but I hate that companies use that information to try to sell me things.
I love being able to be in fairly constant contact, even video calls, with family a thousand miles away - but I hate being easily tracked by anyone that knows how to follow the GPS in my phone.
I love playing games on my smartphone screen - but I hate how easy it has become to waste time.
I don't miss being tied to the wall where the phone hung while you talked - but I sincerely miss being able to slam the phone down when hanging up on someone because I'm mad at them.
I will never be a fan of digital readers, because I'm an absolute bibliophile. I love the feel of paper between my fingers, the smell of well used pages, the odd stains where teardrops hit the page a hundred readings ago.
And yet, how handy is it to carry an entire library in a few square inches of space in your purse?
What a glorious age we live in, that we have such easy access to such a vast wealth of knowledge and entertainment!
What's your preference? And why?
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