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fossilized but still breathing

[Amna Hussain @Lovina_saysss]

Me as a Doctor 👩‍⚕️

[Tariq Malik ™ @ReplyTariq]

وقت کا سامراج آپ کے شور سے نہیں "شعور" سے خوفزدہ ہوتا ہے!

#SundayThoughts

[Ishaaq Newton @Ishaaq__Newton]

Banks in Muslim countries:

[Humera 🇵🇸 @rantsbyhumera]

If your life is running smooth, just open Linkedin and you will automatically be in depression 😵‍💫

[Dr, n• @idcyr_]

When someone says "Go to hell" but you are already in Pakistan.

[Haleema۰۰۰ @HaleemaKhan06]

تم ہی سے اب اے مجاہدو زراعت کا کاروبار ہے ۔۔۔🤫

[Mick @Collingwoodmag]

@cctvidiots One of my favourites 😅

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

The Digitalisation of the Desk:

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

What is all this stuff? Not everything from that 1980s desk is obsolete, nor everything in this image.

People still use some of them, whether out of nostalgia or personal preference. But, increasingly, nobody knows what a floppy disk or pager is, never mind how to use them.

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

Of course, all these bits of technology we've now replaced were themselves replacements for even older technology.

Word processors replaced typewriters, calculators (largely) replaced the abacus, the ball-point replaced the fountain pen, and so on. It's a never-ending process.

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

And it goes back a long way, whether a direct replacement or new invention which makes an older technology obsolete.

Planes replaced airships; the clock replaced the hour glass and sundial; paper replaced parchment... history is (literally) a heap of old tools and technologies:

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

And the implications of this go beyond what our desk looks like or what we use from day to day.

Once upon a time there were "knocker uppers", employed to wake workers in the early morning; alarm clocks have replaced them. An entire profession which no longer exists.

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

Candlemakers and manufacturers of oil lamps presumably took a hit when electric lighting was invented, and certainly when it became cheap and readily available.

The combustion engine supplanted our reliance on horses and after the car was invented the horse population plummeted.

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

But that's what technology does.

It makes new things possible and makes life more convenient, it puts people out of work and puts people into work, it destroys whole industries and creates new ones, it makes the world safer and more dangerous.

And it seems, always, inevitable.

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

And, of course, it changes how we interact with one another and the world.

Before mobile phones there were landlines and phone booths and the Yellow Pages. And before them? Telegrams and letters.

Once upon a time you couldn't be instantly contacted wherever you were.

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

It isn't true that phones are entirely responsible for making us less sociable in public; not so long ago people were occupied by newspapers on public transport...

But some things have changed.

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

Much of what we do with phones once required human interaction, such as asking for directions.

How many millions of conversations haven't happened because of smart phones and the internet?

Then again, how many millions of conversations *have* happened because of them?

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

So even while technology creates new possibilities it can change us in ways we might not want or expect.

When the Luddites resisted mechanised textile production they weren't opposed to losing work so much as being turned from artisans into machine operators.