What are you thankful for?

[thewayne]

A friend sent me this:

So... last week was Thanksgiving. Here is a question:
For which technology are you most thankful?

*Electricity, and electric lights and appliances
*Antibiotics, heart drugs, and other medicines
*Cars, freeways, and gasoline
*Computers
*Cheap, abundant food enabled by agrochemical technologies
*Telecommunications: radio, telephones, television, the Internet
*Other

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This is an easy one for me, and computers ain't it. For me it's medicine, I had heart surgery when I was 18 months old to correct a birth defect, I might not be here had I been born a decade earlier with the same problem.

Yes, computers are my livelihood, but without them I could still write or do photography or who knows what, I am a fairly clever and reasonably talented guy, after all.

Comments

[deborak]

Hmmm. None of those suggestions really jump out at me. Since sewers have been around since the early Indus Valley civilizations, and people have survived fine over the millenia without cheap and abundant food, I won't pick those either. I'll go with a convenience item.

Strike anywhere matches. Building a fire from scratch is a bitch.

Or Photoshop. Live isn't complete without my LJ icons.