New car music systems have certainly enhanced our lives. Or are they are really death by enhancement? We can use something like Pandora(tm), which is fine as far it goes. You set it up before you leave. Then you listen to your favorite band every other song. You listen to same top three hits from each band. Over and over and over. You start to hate your once favorite bands.
So, with your right hand, you take a CD into the CD slot provided on the dashboard. You don’t even have to take your eyes off the road. Oh wait, cars today don’t have a CD slot.
Okay, adapt and move on. Just turn the tuner knob and find another station, one that’s playing a great song. Or push a button that corresponds to one of your five favorite radio stations. You don’t like the volume. No problem, just turn the volume knob. Oh wait, cars today don’t have knobs and buttons. There’s a screen below the dashboard. It takes a fair amount of seconds navigating menus to get what you want done. Meanwhile, you’ve plowed into a dump truck. The dump truck wins.
If only someone made car radios with buttons and knobs and even include a CD slot. Oh wait day, the ancients in their wisdom had invented such a way to listen to music.
And here it is.
Bring back #3
– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.
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