Well I guess I can chime in here too, Times are a changing and they always will. For me it is what people call convenience, like Pipe smokers, look back in the 50's +60's most men smoked a pipe, it was what we did and it was no different than someone today talking on a cell phone (sad to say), but as we as a people got lazy it was easier and faster to have a pack of smokes along and so the pipe fell out of favor. That said this is true with everything, no matter what it is, as technology advances we get lazier, take a look, who gets up to change the channel on TV? I sure as hell do not, Who uses a rotary telephone? :crazy: hell a lot of members dont remember a rotary phone except to see it in an older movie, as for that question though how many have a home phone? I do, but I can go on and on, and if you look at your house/apt. you will see that there is tons of stuff that used to require (i hate to say the word) "effort" to work that now is a push of a button. Anyone in my generation or older remembers many things that we did that required some kind of manual effort (that word again) to do and now if you look around all is remote control, or instant access.
In my simple minded opinion technology has brought us what we are today and sometimes that is not a good thing, dont get me wrong, I use most all modern conveniences as any other Joe does, but I do sometimes fondly think back of simpler times and miss them. The same can be said about Pipe smoking because as I said in the beginning it used to be just what men did until something quicker came along.
Thats my thoughts, and thanks Oldmooner for asking, its a thought provoking subject
