The Technology Buffet

I don’t have a smart watch. I have a dumb, analog watch that I’m very fond of. It tells me the time with mechanical hands, like in the olden days. It’s attractive and simple and... soothing, in a way.

I know a smart watch would do more stuff for me. It would be more convenient or... something. I could probably watch NETFLIX or create a webpage on it. Yay.

And I know I probably don’t need a watch at all. My phone works perfectly well as a clock*, and I spend a lot of time with devices that already have clocks. I’m never really at a loss to know what time it is. But my watch is reassuring in its tangibility and immediacy.

We don’t have to eat the entire technological buffet. We can pick and choose and enjoy what works for us. And we’re not savages because we stalled… I mean deliberately skipped over Blu-ray discs and went right from DVD’s to streaming.

*On language: would it be weird if I had written, “My telephone works perfectly well as a clock”?