“From Marvels to Mediocrity: The Shocking Decline of 40 Iconic Inventions You Thought You Knew!”
#1
We had knobs and buttons on car radios and car ventilation controls. A driver could make adjustments just by touch and not take their eyes of the road. Nowadays, all buttons feel the same or we have touch screens and a driver has to look at them.
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#2
I think social media was an invention that made the world an inferior place.
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#3
Websites. Early websites were clean, loaded quickly, didn’t have tracking cookies or cookie pop-ups and focused on telling you what you wanted to know without a ton of extraneous low-value images.
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#4
Things used to be made of wood, metal and glass. Now everything is made of plastic which doesn’t biodegrade, is made from oil and is weakened by UV light.
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#5
Led headlights. The older halogens were just fine and better for everyone.
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#6
Kitchen white goods such as washing machines etc. My mumâs washing machine she bought in 1980 lasted her nearly 20 years. Modern ones donât seem to last more than 5-6 years.
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#7
Google and by extention the internet generally.
Google used to give you a truly diverse set of results whenever you searched something. Now it gives you a few curated results which all say the same thing.
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#8
Mobile phones. The worst thing to ever happen as a supposed ‘technological advance’ was removing the earphone socket in mobile phones. Now, I have to rely on wireless earphones that always fall out, and the possibility that my phone might lose connection and start blasting music out loud.
