The computer de-evolution and random thoughts

I like newspapers for getting my news but I rarely use them. I don't like seeing newspapers close down due to internet news. This brings me to the question of how do you know if technological advances are really improvements? My guess is that if it brings people together instead of isolating them, it is good. Computers by their nature have one person per monitor and that tends to isolate people. So not everything about computers are good. We haven't totally seen the result in society yet.
I see the waste and arrogance of Americans catching up with them. There are so many new cars for sale that we don't have enough people to buy them. Why do the car manufacturers keep rolling new ones out of the factory? Why don't they make toasters? I could use one that doesn't burn my waffles.
I hear on the radio that people feel sublime happiness when they become debt-free. I am debt free and don't have this happy feeling because its what I'm used to. I don't know what its like to spend money that I don't possess. I've never known how to buy a bunch of expensive furniture and TV's and be relaxed with the fact that its borrowed.

DIgital Photography is Annoying

Easy come is easy go with digital photography. You don't have to own as many skills to take digital photos as you would need with film. In a popular trade magazine I read an opinion from a working photographer who criticized the ones who were still using film. He told them to get over it and start using digital.
Why is digital better? It is easier to deal with and you can do special effects.
Well I was at a rehearsal performance of an opera and the press photographer took 500 or more photos of two singers for 40 minutes. The camera makes noise every time it takes, and its over the orchestra and the singers that I'm hearing this. Since film costs money, I don't think they would take many shots. With digital, its easy come and go and when you are infecting a musical performance you are a parasite. This trying to record something and suck it into your camera at the expense of the purity of the event itself is why I have turned my back on photography. It is a trade I have little respect for. I can understand why celebrities hate paparazzi.