Have New Innovations in Technology Lost Their Functionality?

When I was two years old, I was gifted a little VTech laptop, where I played educational games, but could not access the Internet. Ironically, the laptop still works, and I found its ability to teach me simple addition, subtraction, and multiplication as revolutionary. There has never been an answer to the most difficult question facing our generation today: what is too much innovation? In my opinion, there should not be a limit in regards to inventions. However, at the same time, I found something that appalled me to no end.

 
The product was called the CTA Digital iPotty. This product completely changed my views on innovation, noticing how unproductive and complete inefficient it has become. The iPotty is an invention to make potty training your toddler even easier, and it is exactly what it sounds like. It is a little tiny toilet with a slot to put your iPad in, so the toddler will be occupied as they do their business. I did not know that classic potty training was not working anymore. Nowadays, a toddler cannot be trusted to sit on a toilet seat for two minutes without making use of some sort of electronic device. If a toddler wants stimulation as they go about their business, give them a magazine.
 
Innovation in the consumer world has diverted from making processes more efficient. Rather, most companies are now trying to make usually arduous processes more enjoyable instead, which in turn, does not help the world in general. I am sure these inventors have one main objective in mind: to make money. However, the necessity to make money in this sickeningly pathetic economy has driven our great minds to invent the iPotty, the Potty Putter, and the One-touch Pizza Ordering
Magnet (yes it does exist- it made the NY Daily News' list of World's Stupidest Inventions).
 
We could be advancing our society. We instead find stimulation through Twitter toilet paper (which published Twitter feeds on your toilet paper), Fork chops (a fork with chop sticks on the other side), the Solar Hat (on those hot summer days, maybe you can produce enough electricity with that solar panel atop your head to power your house, not), and my personal favorite: Bacon scented products. The point is that we don't need any of this crap, and we don't have any use for it in our society (please do not use the bacon scented products- it truly is disgusting).
 
Our country has great minds with terrible ideas. We could use these ideas to make our country better than it is today. Instead, we continue to invent items that give us temporary stimulation and relief from our problems. It is time to quit making Beer Pagers (just in case you forget where you put your beer) and start solving the scenarios the world really needs to be solved. It is time to become productive and efficient once again.

Written by R. Turk
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