There Was a Day

New printer

There was a day when any 

new technology had only one cord. One cord and plug in, and one button for on and off. But galloping technology that includes wifi 

~ you know, that thing that carries all our emails and searches and connections to a myriad of devises ~ races past me while I plod along using my laptop, tablet, cellphone 

for the mundane until one of them quits ~ 

goes to that great ‘cloud’ in 

the wifi universe leaving behind 

the big piece of plastic, ports, gears and ink.

The new piece of wifi life 

needs a technician 

~ not my skill set ~ 

to get them all working 

in concert ~ just so 

I can use my new printer. 

“We are stuck with technology when what 

we really want is just stuff that works.”

~ Douglas Adams, 

The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One

p.s. You still have to plug it in and push the on and off button.