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I’m sure we all hear (maybe all too often) about the “good ole days...”

Well, as I drove home the other day (I do my very best thinking when I’m stuck in the Atlanta traffic - but that’s another story) I began thinking about the good ole days...particularly my early years in the business world.  Perhaps I’m dating myself, but I can remember the first dumb terminals, the first typewriter with a correction ribbon (yeah!), and I remember joyfully carrying my new laptop through the airports (weighing just under 17 lbs)! Humph...good ole days, indeed!

But wait a minute – now I can no longer enjoy a cup of coffee at the local coffee house unless I have access to a wireless connection....I can barely keep up with my business email/personal email/blogs/myspace, etc., and I’m tethered not only to a computer, but the latest personal device so I can be reached 24/7, and I’ll never buy another car that doesn’t have Bluetooth technology.

OK - so all of this is good, right?  How on earth did we survive in “the good ole days;” in a society of carbon paper triplicates, WATTS lines, and stamps? Frankly, I don’t know....I’m just happy that we did.  Though it seems that we live in a world expecting “instant gratification,” without these technological advances, we could never even come close to meeting our own (and often absurd) expectations.

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