With every technological milestone we attain, it’s hard to say if life got easier or we just simply adapted quicker than we thought we would. Let’s take a journey back on how it all really started. Remember the cave men? And how they first thought to make fire to keep them warm? Perhaps a whole lot of them soon died from cold. I bet most of us can’t even wrap our heads around the fact that there was a certain point in time where man had to live without fire. So it in this present day. With the release of every new tech, we find it difficult to imagine how we ever lived without these things and we often forget how we were able to use the “old” tech devices that we just tossed aside for the ones.
When I was little, I remember we had these small cassette player called Walkman. Back then, these were the latest tech in town and if you had one, it was only right that you’d take it wherever you went. The thing about the Walkman like every other old gadget was that it was big and heavy and although it soon had those little things at the back where you can hook it unto your shorts or trousers, it will eventually fall off because the weight kept on pulling it down.
The Walkman generation soon faded into a slimmer and sleeker device call the compact disk. The compact disk came with such great promise of better sound quality and it even offered the chance for you to skip an entire track with just a push of a button. Soon after the CD Walkman hit the market, the cassette Walkman had to bow down in surrender. The CD Walkman however was not a complete device, in the sense that it still weighed a ton and no matter how flat it was, it was still quite difficult to hold in your palm. It wasn’t long before a newer device was introduced into the market. One that offered the capacity to contain a greater number of song/audio files, and it was very portable and unlike the cassette and CD Walkman that was heavy to carry, the mp3 player was as portable as it could be and you could even hang it around your neck.
Nowadays owning an mp3 player is no longer a big deal, because now we can have our entire music collection on our mobile phones, or create a playlist, save it online and listen to it on the go. With the advent of smartphone devices, the world connected by the internet can be in our pockets. Who would have thought we could have the world in our pockets literally.