You have to admit, it’s crazy world in which we live in. The doom and gloom regarding the environment. The oil crisis and will we even have enough. All those animal flu’s and then there is the COMPUTER.

Wow haven’t they changed?! Even the way we communicate. You now twaddle? Twatter? Twigger? Oh, I don’t know. It all changes too much too soon. Computers that are trying to be as small as cell phones. Cell phones trying to be as smart as computers. Toasters that have electronic stuff inside them! Whatever happened to turning a knob to say how burnt you wanted your toast? Now they can show you a number of how dark the toast will be. But what does a 3 mean? I just want a shade!

Speaking of cell phones that think they’re computers, I might be their next victim. With more business being done by email, I thought that I may need a phone that could handle emails. This coming from someone who has only just past my “Computer Literacy” diploma! Remember my first blog of not knowing what a blog was? And now I want a phone that can email? Crazy world indeed.

But I’m the first to admit that the new iPhone is cool. I’m a “Nan” that likes something as advanced as a phone you can touch. But it also makes them better if they’re easy to use. I’m not interested in all the other stuff that they said about it on the TV. I would just like something simple. It seems, sometimes, that’s too much to ask for us ‘oldies’.

I think technology designers should start making things for us, not our kids. We’re the baby boomers. We have the majority stake in the world, don’t we? Why is it so hard to make buttons on phones the size of small planets? Why do I have to find one of my 19 pairs of glasses to read a text message? Why is my arm too short to read the screen? Or toasters that show the shade my toast will be? With a big knob to turn?

Maybe I should send a link for this page to Apple and Breville and see what happens.