Now think of it this way. Every single generation thinks the one succeeding it is lazy, spoiled and ignorant. We can even go back to prehistoric times when the wheel was invented and fire was found! Picture Mr. Cro-Magnon saying the following: "Oh, look at those guys using their 'wheels' and 'fire'! Ooooh, look at me, I'm too good to walk and eat raw mammoth meat!" Does it strike you as out of place? It shouldn't, because it probably happened (in grunts and other creative guttural sounds, but still). This must've been said by someone at some point in every generation.

So this raises the question: do we actually take our lifestyle for granted, or is it just a natural evolution of needs and habits? Are we slaves to our technologies, or do they simply improve our way of life? Could you imagine a life without Internet and cell phones? I don't think I personally could. I was born in the very early days of Internet and cell phones were inexistent still, but within the first 10 years of my life, computers started to be a common thing, and people started to rely on it. How many jobs (and lives) currently depend solely on the computer? I know mine does!

On the other hand, where would we be without all those technological advances? The Internet allows for widespread communication, the language and geographic barriers fall and people are free to communicate with each other. I owe a great deal to that single thing, it's how I learned English and programming, which are the two things that drive my professional career. And we can go further! What about planes? They make it possible to do, in half a day, trips that were nearly unthinkable a hundred years ago! Then again, you could twist it this way for, say, computers which enables us to do, in half an hour, tasks which were completely unnecessary before. How's that for a logic bomb?

In conclusion, can there be an answer to that question? I think there is. Yes, we take technology for granted. Yes, every generation has done so in the past, and will continue to do so in the future - it's in the human nature to take commonly accessible things for granted. However, it is not so for everyone on this planet. Try talking about emails to anyone in a third world country, see if they care. They'll ask you if it can produce food or water, that's it. It's a matter of lifestyles and societies. We take everything for granted, and it isn't necessarily wrong. It's what drives (some of) us to improve existing technologies and discover new things along the way. It's the base of science and research. What do you think?

Sources: Multiply & Reddit

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-Banksy

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