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Without my modern gadgets would I have survived in the Middle Ages?
My phone wakes me up in the morning.
The car is full of computers and gadgets and it warns me if I have left the head lights on, it even tells me which way to go as I am driving to where I want to be.
My coffee machine pours out the exact amount of water for my cup, brewed from a little blister pack with just enough coffee to fill a single cup.
A gadget on the side of the radiator turns it off and on so that I don't get too hot or cold.
My sticky tape dispenser prevents me having to search for the edge of the roll and winkle it up with my finger nails every time I want to put up a poster. My computer basically installs software for me, I am reduced to the roll of some test chimp whose simple task is to push the green buttons and avoid the red buttons.
If I can't even be trusted to reverse a car into a space in a car park, specially designed for cars to be parked in it, without a beeping noise to warn me when I have gone too far then how would I get on with an ox cart or elk-drawn sledge.
Without all these devices and gadgets I would probably be sitting under a tree in the sun wondering if today I should mostly collect strawberries or cashew nuts for dinner, actually that doesn't sound too bad.
