Protecting our Thumbs!
All of this post is true--well--at least most of it. :) Occasionally this picture or something like it comes across my social media feeds. Smartphones have clearly replaced many more items than what is listed here. When was the last time you used a non-digital camera or played a record or CD? The list goes on... I'd like to suggest one more item smartphones have replaced. I am a child of the 1970s, and for better or worse my parents did not care or show any remorse regarding the breakfast cereal we ate. Sooooo--if it was sugared, I probably ate it. I fondly remember picking cereal based on the toy that was in the bottom of the box as well as the cartoon character on the front of the box. I recall a silly bunny, a toucan, a tiger with stripes, a leprechaun, a bear--oh my, the list is endless--all working their marketing genius on me. And what did we do when we ate that cereal? We read the back of box, of course. No self-respecting kid in 1976 ever read the health informati