Technology changes people’s lives through time, and the best way to think about how technology might affect is to reimagine your life without it. Today, for example, you can pay your traffic violations wherever you are, make and receive calls and read news, listen to music, among other things, all with one device.
This has become a simple and simple way of life by today's standards, and if you want to measure the amazing development today, remember how we used to live in the past.
Imagine with me: you are in 1989 you want to pay your violations, and you have to take leave from your work, and go to the Traffic Department at seven in the morning to avoid crowding, and wait for the employee to open a transaction for you, in a procedure that may take four hours. At that time, the lines were spontaneous, and people stood in front of the employee and asked him randomly. Woe to you if your papers were incomplete, because that means taking another day off to complete your transaction.
Behind the employee who performs your transaction, there is a room from which a soldier exits with a pile of files in his hand, and sometimes smoke is emitted from that room during the days when smoking was known in offices. One of the distinguishing signs of that time is that your transaction may be accomplished quickly if the employee is from the Freej’s sons, and he will chant for you: “The money of ours!”, Which is a welcome and a celebration in good faith, and it should not be understood as obstructing the interests of others.
And if you want to make a necessary call, you should ask the employee to use his office phone, or find a public phone soon, which is often crowded and smells stuffy in the nose, especially if the user before you smokes.
In 1999, the number system was introduced to many of our departments, and while you were waiting, I brought a newspaper with you, and I used to read it until your turn came. You still take time off from your time to end this transaction even if you don't have to, because the time has been shortened to two hours. Payment is still in cash, but the Nokia is in your hands if you have to make a call.
In 2009, you paid your violations online, and only went to check and receive the new property, in a procedure that took no more than half an hour. The device is in your possession “BlackBerry” or “iPhone”, and there is an Ipod for music that you use for entertainment only.
Today 2019/2020, applications on your smart device complete all your transactions wherever you are, read the news from any source you wish, and your favorite music with digital subscriptions cheaper than ever, or for free via the YouTube application.
The time to complete a transaction fell from more than four hours to 10 minutes in 30 years. If I had said that to someone at that time, he would have fallen into astonishment, or perhaps he would have made fun of you.
In Arabic: Does your mind imagine that after 30 years we will look at today's applications a ridiculously unacceptable view of the technology revolution, which changes every five years as a maximum, according to expert estimates, and sometimes every year?
Note for 2000 and later: The iPod, which has not lasted for 15 years, has been storing and organizing favorite music in the decade before, and its screen was black and white.
In 2009 you paid your violations on the website and only went to check and receive the new property, in a procedure that did not take more than half an hour.
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