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Technology is Complicated

I become flummoxed by technology at least 10 times each day.  It isn't that I am a luddite, although I am not up-to-date.   It is because the speed of advancement in technology is too fast for me to keep up.   In a typical day….I read about a new app that does something I don't even understand or, if I do, why anyone would want it.  I go to use a program that I have used repeatedly in the past and there has been an upgrade and now I can't figure out how to do what I want to do.  My reader gets a software update and all my books disappear.  My favorite game app on my smartphone is updated and now I am besieged with endless "do you want to" reminders.  My antivirus program suddenly starts blocking outgoing emails and I have to figure out why.  My bluetooth only works in the car when I turn it on my phone first and then on the hands free device.  And there is no escape.  Everywhere I go and everything I try to do requires...