Ok, think about all the technology that you have access to today. Nosir, it doesn't matter if you do not know how to use it or even if you are completely brain dead as far as esoteric computer usage is concerned. The fact is; it is there and you do use it.
Many of you, just as I do, have many gadgets which do things all by themselves. They turn off after a certain amount of time, they come on at a certain time and sometimes they even decide which is which. I hate that. But- he says gleefully- one new thing I really do like is the TV recorder which can record two programs at once and be set to record a whole series. You do not even have to be in attendance or even in the same state. This box, a TV robot, will take over and have every thing ready for you when you return. Yes, I have heard/read of one that records multiple channels but I do not have one nor know where to get one that I can afford.
I do not watch a great deal of network TV except for Big Bang Theory and maybe one or two others. However, there are some programs appearing now on the “upper" channels I would like to see, so I set the DVR box and take off for Arkansas or some other remote third world country. Then when I get home I have to fix all the recording options as the box records The Big Bang Theory every time it is on. Sometimes I even win this battle.
It nearly cause a mild panic as a warning came on that it would start recording during a crucial part of the OSU football game. Now I like having that particular piece of technology but I want it to do what I want not what it wants. If I wanted another teenage kid living here I would have bought one instead of a box. I don't need something else telling me what it wants to do.
And, speaking of teenage kids, I do not remember my parents having to ask me how to do anything. My age group must have grown up in a technological wasteland as my parents knew how to do almost everything. Probably, if you are over 45 years of age, you do not remember having to tell your parents how to operate the TV or radio or other devices. 40-45 years ago the kitchen and living room were not designed by Bill Gates, Google or some Microsoft company.
45 years ago an Apple was something you stole from the neighbor's tree or bought at the
grocery store but it was definitely not something you spent hours stroking. A virus was something that appeared about the same time as the “nine-week" math test you hadn't prepared for and reading a Jules Verne novel was the only way to take a trip to the moon. To go to the planets or beyond one would have to read Isaac Asimov.
Just preparing a simple meal takes the use of quite a bit of technology we no longer even think about consciously. We set the temperature of the oven, we open cans with an opener that stops when it has cut the whole lid, we thaw, warm up, and cook with the microwave oven. Then we set the oven temperature and time, set the electric range “burner" and use the TV remote control to choose one of a quadzillion TV channels while we are waiting for all those robot servants to finish your work.
Then tomorrow morning, when it is cold, we use the car's remote control to start the engine so it will warm up the car and then you will go get in it and set the GPS to tell you how to get to a  location. On the way there, you go to an ATM, swipe your card, receive the proper amount of money and a receipt telling you how much you took and how much you have left.  Oddly enough the ATM isn't nearly as embarrassed as you are at the size of your account. Robots are discreet that way.
Please do not think I am against all this technology. I am not one of the troglodytes in public office who think they can still fool all the people all the time and do not realize YouTube has probably caught them on the Appalachia Trail. Nosir, I believe in technology. I am such a tech fool that I have even tried to have a tech from India understand American English and fix a problem for me.
I just wish my computer knew that “I" am supposed to tell “it" what to do – not the other way around.