In my day, we didn’t have much in the way of “gadgets” or “technology.” No, we were happy to sow our victory gardens for the war effort, and that was all the entertainment we needed. Not like you kids today! No mammy, we didn’t need to have something in our hands at all times to distract us from the harsh, cruel realities of our lives.
We didn’t have sports scores and news in the palm of our hands. No, we had patience, and waited for the daily sports crier to come to the corner and shout out the winners of the horse races and boxing bouts, and we were happy to do so.
https://gizmodo.com/mobile-espn-rises-from-the-crypt-and-chooses-verizon-w-260784
And if we had work to do, we did it ourselves. We didn’t have robot slaves (slaves of any kind were a no-no, what with the Civil War being a relatively fresh memory in those days) to do our bidding. We dug up our own corpses when the situation necessitated it, and we did it with smiles on our faces.
https://gizmodo.com/hello-kitty-angel-of-death-robot-ploughs-corpses-260781
As for other robots, this gigantic one wouldn’t have impressed me one bit. We had B-52 bombers, for Pete’s sake! And a baby seal robot would have been worthless, as we had real seals that we had gotten from the Eskimos that traveled through town as part of the circus. Put that in your pipe and smoke it!
https://gizmodo.com/life-sized-gundam-wakes-up-destroys-enemies-takes-a-n-260811
One thing I will admit is that it would have been nice to have one of these fancy-pants wheelchairs around, as a lot of our boys came back from the front lines in awful shape, and having all those fancy features would have helped them get around. But they managed just fine without, let me tell you, and I’m sure their characters were all the better for it!
https://gizmodo.com/video-one-seriously-pimped-out-wheelchair-260461
Leave me alone, I’m going to take a nap.
