Has technology made everything worse? - Deseret News

Meg is a staff writer who covers ideas and culture in Utah and beyond. I am begging for a more analog life. It was maybe in an allergist’s waiting room, when I was handed a tablet and instructed to fill out pages and pages of relevant medical history, that I finally snapped. As I sat there, using my index finger to type full sentences, I thought of all the times we as a society were promised that technology would make our lives easier. Or it was maybe when I had to schedule 15 parent-teacher conferences across three schools using three different apps that I broke. Or it could have been being forced to purchase a new phone when the previous one stopped charging and having to spend untold hours re-downloading apps and trying to remember login information because the data transfer from the old phone was unsuccessful. I think we had a good 50 to 75 years there when advances in technology made our lives increasingly easier. We could wash clothes and dishes in machines instead of by hand. We could manufacture products at speeds never before thought possible. We could have the news of the world broadcast to our living rooms.