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Apart from health related things, anything else are just gadgets that don't really improve life IMHO.
Hmm, I'm not sure I agree. There's plenty of tech that improves our lives, but anything that does is usually subtle stuff we don't think about. It's the "loud" tech that sucks. Things you notice using.
Example, if ever a friend needs money quickly (or I need to borrow money from a friend), it takes like a minute to log into the bank app and post a SEPA instant transfer. Maybe less. It's amazingly convenient and available for every bank in my country.
Search engines aren't as good as Google used to be, but I still find information very fast compared to when I didn't have Internet access.
GPS is great. Remember when you had to use a paper map book and buy an update every year to stay up to date? I do. GPS wasn't that common in my country in my childhood because it was expensive to buy a device.
All of these examples are good only if you think that we need to have access to everything as soon as possible. It can definitely be convenient at times, but it also feels like most of the time it actually ends up being forced on you, when in truth, life shouldn't require that we get money straight away, nor that we have to follow the best possible itineary. Being able to take our time to do things is to me the thing that we are actually missing nowadays.