"Fluorescent lighting makes me feel like I’m dead, and am just haunting whatever room I happen to be in. It makes me feel like the top of my head has been replaced with something clammy and toxic."
Twenty years ago, new consumer technology was usually easy to understand., like: Oh, it’s a phone without wires, so you can talk and walk around. Oh, it’s a Datasette for your VIC-20, so you can store Q*bert for later enjoyment while playing Radar Rat Race. Oh, it’s a crimper, so your hair will look crimpy.
Simple, right? Maybe they weren’t all great products, but they were pretty much self-explanatory. Even if you didn’t want one yourself, you could at least imagine someone who might. ...
It gets worse. More and more, technology is not only nearly useless, but it actively betrays us—creates more problems than it solves. For instance, mobile phones kept getting smaller and smaller, because it was considered obvious that smaller is cooler and cooler is better. Which led to construction workers everywhere using their phones mainly as something to curse at as they try and try and try and try to hit the right little bitty button with their giant, meaty pointer fingers.
And then we have, of course, the miserable, wretched CFL bulb.
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