Good Tech Bad Tech

[loki]

This is by any shadow of a doubt an age of technological enlightenment where everything is getting smaller, faster, cooler, cheaper etc etc ad nauseum. When I were a lad (Yes I do know that sounds bloody old ) FM radio was very much in it's infancy, Television had 4 channels. 3 of which broadcast till 12.00 at night and BBC2 only came on in the afternoon . So yes every single day,month and year we are moving forward and out lives are becoming easier.

The cost of entry to a lot of past times has come down considerably, Photography, Music, General Entertainment, Computing, gaming etc etc etc.

But it's not all plain sailing. In as much we are at technological warp factor 9 there are still some un-necessary frustrations that just make you want to go Grrrrrrr

For example, DRM and connected to that iTunes. DRM in any format is just a proper pain in the arse. Inadvertendley it penalises the one who genuinely purchase music or software. Then you have iTunes. In principal it's great, you have iTunes, you buy your music in the store and you load it onto your ipod. Well what if you don't have or don't want to use an iPod or iTunes or vice versa. Even if you do have both, you can no longer drag and drop music into "your music" it now has to be a add folder from a menu system.

So what's your good tech and bad tech. What's the one thing you love or the gadget you couldn't live without. What frustrates the hell out of you despite it supposed to making your life easier