Yeah, recollecting the Amazon earnings wasn't as hard or that much if a pain to do. All I ended up having to do was do a search in my emails for notification of my sales. And then I added everything up using a calculator. So in the end I didn't really have anything to complain about.
Although... I can say I learned my lesson. Never, NEVER, create notes on an MP3 player, tablet, whatever, without also making a hard, (as in hand written on paper), copy.
The real sad thing is is that I actually can't remember the last time I wrote something down that was of any substance. What I mean by that is writing something other than adding things to the grocery list or making small notes about, say the location of a garage sale, or the hours of a store, or writing down a book and it's author that I want to find in the bookstore.
The sad truth of the reality is that we, as a developed nation rely too heavily on the Internet and electronic devices such as calculators, computers, GPS, laptops, tablets, smartphones... I could go on but the fact of the matter is that we rely so much on technology that even simple mundane things, such a basic math are considered to be bothersome, troublesome, a 'pain' as I said in my last post.
There was no reason why I couldn't have the done the math myself. It's not like it was hard, just basic arithmetic, a word I couldn't even spell! It took me several tries before spellcheck, another thing we rely on too heavily to figure out what I was trying to spell.
We just don't think for ourselves anymore. We have computers that do the thinking for us, calculators to do the math, and spellcheck so that we, in effect, (affect?), see I don't even know what word to use! You don't even have to worry about spelling anything correctly because either your misspellings will be autocorrected or spellcheck will catch your mistakes for you.
Even typing this, even typing this post I haven't capitalized my 'I's, its been auto-corrected for me. I'm not typing in any apostrophes, again it's all autocorrect.
What were to happen, what were to happen if all of a sudden we didn't have the Internet anymore? People buys things online, sell things online, shop, pay bills. Some people's whole livelihood depends on the Internet. What would happen if the Internet just vanished? Crashed? Would war break out? Would the world be plunged into a depression even more severe then the Great Depression of the 1930s?
So much research, scientific research, is done online, shared online, the information gathered from tests and observations is all put online. Sure there are still medical books, and doctors who keep a paper copy of their patients' medical records, but so many lives are saved today because of the vast amount of information and knowledge that can be found by simply typing into a search engine.
Do we as a society rely too heavily on technology? We certainly don't need it for our basic survival. The Amish live without the modern conveniences, (another word the I don't know how to spell and took spellcheck a while to figure out what word I was trying to type), and they've managed. In fact, people live off the grid everywhere, either by choice or by circumstances, may they be environmental, cultural, or whatever.
The point that I'm trying to make is that they MAKE DO. They live their lives. And whose to say that their lives are more complicated or harder then our own? I would argue that it is actually the other way around. By relying so much on technology, so much on the inventions of the 20th and 21st centuries that our lives are more complicated, are more difficult and challenging.
And yet here I am. Writing this on a tablet, on the Internet, to post on a blog.
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