Best things about modern day

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I was thinking earlier how handy it is that I no longer have to carry a whole load of coins for parking, bus fares and the phone box. I use an app/debit card/mobile phone.

I was also recalling how in the olden days, you had to phone a number to get times for the cinema or look it up in your local newspaper.

What other hassles do we no longer have?

Not having those arguments in pubs when someone gives you a 'little known fact'.

Oh no, this is a loss, it was so much fun. Now you know what you have straightaway. Meh.

I think sensors and alarms are amazing. E.g. hardwired fire alarms in every house, oximeters for £15, proper thermometers.

Deliveroo.

Lockdown wouldn't have happened in previous generations. For one, without the internet nobody could work from home or home school so there would have been little point of "lockdown" if everyone was still going out to work.

There also wouldn't have been the same mass hysteria fuelled by social and mainstream media - we wouldn't have been able to look up death numbers at any time and berate internet strangers for going for 2 walks around an empty field etc.

Go-Pro dash cams (in particular the type you can fit to your bike helmet), with the ability to prove that some bastard was really aggressive and driving dangerously, cutting you up and needlessly sandwiching themselves between you and the car coming in the opposite direction, because they want to save half a nano-second on their journey.

The next progression to this is when insurance companies and the police accept the footage as evidence of dangerous driving, and go after those reckless killers in the making and stop them in their tracks.

caveat, dangerous cyclists are equally culpable and hopefully if the current proposal is passed, they will be tried under the same laws as motorists. No dangerous driving should ever be acceptable, and go-pro go a long way to providing conclusive evidence that used to be limited to witness statements which are often unreliable or non-existent.

Digital cameras on football pitches and in tennis have also been a "game changer".boom-boom

I find injectable insulin pretty handy.
It's relatively modern - first used in 1922, and a more reliable synthetic GM human version was licensed in 1982 (up to then, pig or cattle insulin had been used).

Modern medicine. I'm sure that many Mumsnetters would have died long ago, if not for the advances in medicine.

Automatic washing machines.

In a few generations, we've gone from laundry taking a whole day to being able to just open a door, shove in the washing, pour a bit of detergent in a drawer, press a few buttons and let the machine do the work.

I'm in my 50s and we didn't get an automatic washing machine until I was in my late teens so I really appreciate the convenience.

That’s hilarious.
In the olden days yes you had to ensure that you always had your purse with you.
However that was much easier than sorting out inevitable problems that occur nowadays when app doesn’t work or you are out of battery or there’s no signal.
Any problems inevitable take hours to sort out as companies no longer employ humans just bots who take you around in circles.
I currently have problems with 8 different organisations. No chance of going into an office or speaking to someone on the phone.
Life is much more difficult nowadays.

Yes this - I wonder what people 500 years ago did if they were short sighted?

Also, IVF. May be controversial but I don’t care. IVF is only about 40 years old. If I was only a generation older I would not have been able to have children. Due to my DH childhood illness.

Yes, no longer having to find an internet cafe on holiday to do my online checkin, but now having to worry about having no data or battery to show my electronic boarding pass.
At work, problems with expense claims because e passes have disappeared or because it could be easy to claim them at two different places, more chance of fraud without originals.