You might even have been using technology without knowing about it. Because, believe it or not, using your phone or driving your car would be impossible without at least some technology. And did you know that even your watch uses technology? Just take the back off and there it is – lots of technology packed in there, really small. This might be counter-intuitive to many of you, but it’s actually technology that’s moving the fingers around the dial. So without it, we simply wouldn’t be able to tell the time – at least with the modern watches that have tech in them, rather than the old ones that worked by winding them up; but few people alive can remember those now.
Other devices that have been replaced by technology include typewriters, stationary phones, steam organs, video recorders and vinyl discs. All have been made redundant, crushed into quaint obsolescence by the relentless march of technology. Even the word ‘disc’ has been replaced by &