Back in the mid Twentieth Century sci-fi movies will show the great
expectations people had for the future, but things have got worse in
everything but communications, so I can use them to complain about the
un-progress.
I just saw an example last night. I was a guest where there was a
gas fire place that could only be turned on by a remote. The remote had
all kinds of complex adjustments and a complex dial, and it didn't work.
The batteries had just been changed (extra expense), so what was wrong?
Fifty years ago all you needed was to flip a simple switch.
And, in the good old days you could get into your car with the
keys, and decide whether you wanted to turn the lights on or not. Then
there wasn't the confounded computerization to go wrong.
With "modernization" computers came to control everything and a
satellite called HAARP has been thrown in orbit that can wipe out all
electronics in any wide spread area by ripping a hole in the ionosphere
to allow the radiation from the Van Allen belt to wipe out all
electronics and crash all computerization. It will only take the flip of
a swith.