Technology - forwards or backwards?

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Which do you prefer, furthering technology or regression?
For example: Car, or Horse? Digital camera, or film? TV, or books? Tell us why if you feel like it...

For myself, I hate driving (but can), prefer old film cameras, and have no TV but read often. I wish I could ride a horse. But then I do like taking trains, and I'm fascinated by space exploration, like the Mars robot.

I miss playing games with other people in the same room.

If playing alone is progress, I could use a little regression.

The one thing I like about digital cameras is that you can switch between black and white and sepia tones easily without having to change a roll of film.

I like a mix of things. Most of what I own is not the latest technology but it still works as intended. My newest car is 15 model years old and the oldest is 34. I have a cool geiger counter from 1962 that still measures gamma and beta radiation just fine. I also have a Japanese sewing machine from 1957 and a portable typewriter from the 70's. My oldest hand tools date from the teens and 1920's and used to belong to my great grandfather.

progress always. you cant blame technology for the human element. Especially with the ability of doing dumb things the human element has

Yeah, I should have been born a century ago or a century from now. I am not sure which. Really, I'd like to be an outlaw in the old west or a passenger on a trip to another world.

I tend to be regressive when it comes to technology. Name one item, and I could probably have an issue with it somehow.

For example... I own a pocketwatch because I was tired of my wristwatch sliding off my arm every time I tried to write. I've a bike because I got tired of my car breaking down. Not to metion my biggest enemy the computer which confuses me to no end. I swear I'm no better than my dad. * Who is horrible at it everytime he uses it, he has to call on my help *

I shoot film! But I then convert the images to a digital form. My avatar picture was shot on film and then fiddled with to bring out the color of the eyes.

I'd love to learn to ride a horse, but not to clean up after it. I can't ride a bike at all. So I've had to settle for driving/walking.

The only technology I really don't want to be without is indoor plumbing/running water and heating/cooling (including refrigeration). Oh, and metallurgy and spinning fiber (for my special interests).

Social networking Defiantly needs too downgrade.. its way too personal. When you sighn up for Facebook. or twitter it requires all your information as if its a FBI file...