PSA: Did you know modern man was around for about 285,000 years....

We now have the data from the space program, and we have powerful computers to analyze it. It's a miracle that we made it to the moon without any major incidents. The equipment should have failed.

We did cure diseases, but an emergency response team, would not be able to save the life of someone stuck on a mountain with a life threatening emergency, without them.

Granted that the world will keep on spinning if you had to wait 10 minutes to get home, on you to deliver a review of the restaurant where you just had lunch, instead of doing it while driving. But I don't know if I can wait until the dentist is done replacing my crown, to respond to a lunch invite.

BBC Radio Four's weekly Broadcasting House programme has just carried out an intriguing though small-scale experiment with several volunteers.

It exchanged their "smart"-'phones with simple voice & text only ones for a short time - a fortnight I think. So they could still make and receive important calls but were free of all the rest of it.

When they swapped them back, the presenters interviewed the subjects about their experiences.

These of course varied but at least some found it actually a release, allowing them to spend time on other things without feeling they had to be looking at the thing all the time.

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Isn't it illegal to use them when driving, where you are? It is here, in the UK, and I am pretty sure it is in many other countries, too.

Mine is switched off and packed away when I am on a journey anywhere, but it's a basic type, not "smart", anyway. It's switched off and in another room in the house at the moment, too.

Cells are only a tool..but a very misused one if you don't use common sense

My father was laughing when I checked my phone to Google the age of a celebrity we were discussing. I asked, "Wonder what we did before Google ? Go drag out an encyclopedia ?"
Pop said, "No, we just didn’t know this kind of stuff. But I don’t think we cared !" 😄