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A Life of Comfort and Ease (Under Appreciated Modern Conveniances)
J:
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--- Quote from: BeoPuppy on 23 Jul 2013, 07:44 ---Antibiotics.
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And other things; I've survived Peritonitis (from a burst appendix abscess), TB, Cancer (had radiotherapy), Heart Attack (had stent).
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i think there's a good chance that a lot of us would be dead today without modern antibiotics & vaccinations, even without such traumatic ailments.
honestly though, it is rather interesting to think about the little things, and just how archaic some of them seem from only a decade or two ago.
consider the standard consumer level camera: 15 years ago we were chemically recording our images onto strips of plastic, which could be completely destroyed just by opening the back at the wrong time. and we actually had to send them off to a lab, just to find out what they looked like. i remember dropping off film at the supermarket kiosk with my mom as a kid, and not getting them back for at least a week.
and hell, that whole process was really just a streamlined version of what the earliest photographers had to do. close to 200 years of technical & artistic evolution, completely obsolete in less than 20.
celticgeek:
Ah, yes, film. And it seems as if all of the one-hour film processing places have disappeared from my area (says the man with three full rolls of 35 mm film left in his closet.)
Loki:
I read some time ago that certain color films from ages ago cannot be properly developed anymore because the company (Kodak?) was, in fact, losing money from still producing the color and I think they still hold the patent, so noone else can do it. You could still get them developed in sepia, though.
Kugai:
--- Quote from: BeoPuppy on 23 Jul 2013, 07:44 ---Antibiotics.
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That and modern Asthma medication.
I doubt I'd be able to be as active as I am without them.
J:
i am now about 12,000 miles away from where i wrote my previous post.
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