https://amgreatness.com/2020/11/24/georgias-digital-delusions/
In my local pub (when Boris Johnson permits one to attend), the march of progress continues its gloriously pointless pace.
Rather than perform the rigmarole of walking up to the bar and telling blood and flesh you’d like an Old Fashioned, one can now avoid this outmoded nonsense.
Indeed, this advancement took place before the specter of the Ambitious Flu, and social distancing. One can now shuffle through the pub doors, plant oneself into a quiet corner, pull out one’s iPhone, and order a drink through the app.
Yes, just a few taps of the thumb, and the drink arrives at one’s table without a word muttered.
Of course, a human being still mixes the drink. And still carries it over to the table.
Apparently, this is evidence of the unrelenting technological progression of enlightened beings. For decades, was ordering a drink in a bar akin to hopscotching across a minefield? Has technology saved us from the horrible inclemency of life?
If anything, this pointless sanitization of everyday humanity is the technological vanity of a species without cultural achievement since the turn of the century.