I am now suffering from "technological rugburn", as I like to call it.

I've seen one too many gadgets that make no sense.

This evening, I saw my first refrigerator with a built-in TV set.


WHY???


I'm hardly a technophobe...far from it,  I like gadgets and electronic toys and can always think of
another thing I'd like to add to my collection of cool electronics, particularly for my home theater system.

But I like gadgets that  have a well defined purpose.  Things that make SENSE.

The combination printer/scanner/copier/fax machine/telephone,  I can understand.

I can even get the idea of the cellular phone with a camera in it.

But a refrigerator with a built-in TV set?

That's just nutty.

I've heard that there's also a TV set with a built-in beer cooler.   It's probably  true.


I'm starting to miss the good old days.  The days when your phone was for phone calls, your TV was for watching television,  your camera was only a camera,  the refrigerator only kept food cold,
and there wasn't this push toward putting a computer into EVERYTHING you can buy.


I have seen the future, and it's a flashy blinking light on a computer.


CJ

Quoted: I'm waiting for the toilet in a bed with the big screen foot board before I beg to go. They already have them. Push a button and the flat screen comes up out of the footboard. And to top it off they have the hot tubs with a big screen that works the same way

Helio?

Perhaps the saddest thing of all is that people will buy any newfangled gadget like this that they see, if its advertising is slick enough.

"You need a Thneed!"

Anyone remember that?

How about a star on your belly?

Theodore Geisel understood the mentalities of people and businesses quite well.

And of course, being true to his usual form,  danonly uses a rhetorical question as an excuse to launch a personal attack.  To which I respond,

Bite me, danonly.  


CJ