Repeating this post from a couple of years ago. I ran across it, because I have STILL not completed my StoryWorth book (I extended the subscription)! Anyway, I think the subject is very interesting. Here is what I wrote in 2023:
More than a year ago, my daughter gave me a subscription to StoryWorth. How it works is this:
- At least once a week, a question is emailed to me, and I write an essay about it. Some of the questions are supplied by StoryWorth, but most are asked by my daughter and her family members. I can also add topics that I want to include.
- We can add photos to enhance the essays.
- My daughter/grandsons can comment on the essays, or ask questions, and our conversation becomes part of the essay.
- After a year or so, the essays are made into a book as a keepsake.
Here’s a REVIEW, that includes a lot more information about the product, if you are interested.
Anyway, back to the topic! The title of this post is this week’s StoryWorth question: What inventions have had the biggest impact on your day-to-day life?
There are so many to choose from. How about the transistor radio? Contact lenses? The telephone answering machine? Pocket calculator? The audio cassette? Fax machine? VCR? Digital camera? CD/DVD? Satellite navigation?
I’m thinking that these are the top three inventions during my lifetime that have had the most personal impact:
- The internet. Knowledge at the touch of a keyboard.
- Personal computers. Creative tool, and storage of memories.
- Cell phones. Convenience and safety.
There are others that I thought of, such as The Pill. I guess that laparoscopic surgery is one to put on the list. Then there is the procedure that ‘cured’ my heart attack . . . coronary angioplasty and stent implantation.
What would you put on your list?
Stella's Place 
Good morning. I brought the Monday pot!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Excellent! Mornin’ Menage!
LikeLike
Good morning! That should hold enough to get us through the day.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Good morning Menagerie,
When you said you’d bring the coffee you weren’t kidding!
Bet the people of this municipality will be surprised at what is coming out of their taps!
Isn’t it great when utilitarian things are made more interesting with a little creativity?
Good morning, Stella, hope your day is a good one.
Wow, Wee gave the tower of coffee an excellent rating. Menagerie, you hit the “big time” of compliments.
LikeLiked by 2 people
Thank you and good afternoon. That breakfast looks good anytime!
Sorry about getting the post on the wrong thread Stella!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Whose ready for the full English Breakfast?
LikeLiked by 2 people
Anytime!! 🙂
LikeLike
That’s “Who is…” when I’m not in a hurry.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Stella,
Your question deserves a thoughtful answer. Widely available electrical power wasn’t first developed during my lifetime, but the inventions that have most impacted my life came about as a result of it. It literally changed dark into daylight. It reduced manual labor significantly and spawned a new generation of inventions. We would have greatly different lives without it.
And there are so many inventions that I find it difficult to choose one, or two, but I can identify what made them all possible. I see from the entry photo, that you acknowledge that, too.
But as great as those inventions are, each has required the human touch to be fully realized. I never want to forget the man or woman behind the invention and the genesis of its creation.
I like the StoryWorth idea, so much family history can be lost from generation to generation. We are not so much a “family story” telling society today. I hope you continue to enjoy it.
LikeLike
Ok, so I think the personal automobile, the cell phone and the internet have been the biggest liberators of my daily life. Otherwise I’d have to love in a city to get around and to access sources of information I used to have to ride my bike and go to the library for.
LikeLike
The electric typewriter (followed, of course, by the software/keyboards).
Oh, how I wish I had not sold my IBM Selectric.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Correction:
The typewriter was out of my way when it was not needed.
LikeLike
Sharon,
It’s so difficult to find parts, including ribbons for typewriters today. But they can be faster for simple tasks, such as addressing a single envelope, and neater than handwriting for such simple tasks.
I once used a old desk with typewriter access, it was as simple as opening a door and pulling out a shelf, which then rose to typing height. It was fast and efficient while being out of my way when the typewriter was needed.
LikeLike
When I was still working, just a few years ago, we kept a couple of Selectric typewriters just for occasional small jobs like making mailing labels or file label inserts etc.
LikeLiked by 1 person