All too common topic of conversation

It seems that an all too common topic of conversation is about the use and questions about the use of gadgets.

I do not imagine that previous generations spent the time we do – conversation time – sitting around discussing their difficulties using the rotary dial telephone or the post office. Or rather, while I do imagine people in the past discussing how the phone works or just how mail gets delivered, I imagine that these discussion would have been about the systems themselves and how they change the way we communicate. I do not imagine that the conversations were about how much time they wasted trying to figure out how to dial or how to address an envelope.