Too Much Technology
OK, so that is the commercial for the Galaxy watch-thingy. The first thing that strikes me about it is that its predecessors are all fictional devices that had no place in actual life. There is a reason for that. We never had the technology. Now that we do, that doesn't give us an excuse to have another device that interrupts our daily lives to inform us of something coming in from the outside. Seriously, are people willing to pay for this junk? The second thing is that I can't imagine why anyone would want a device on their wrist that tells them that something in their pocket needs attention. Isn't that the ultimate in redundancy? Why would anyone pay for a device that tells them something that they already paid for? The answer, I guess, is that it's possible. We can invent devices that tell us what we already know. Something I would pay for is a device that re-routes my calls to a person on t...
