As lepersbell has pointed out, these are manufactured problems that a product of a technology obsessed society. The low-tech solution had worked just fine in the past. While things may seem more convenient, the question is, has society benefited? Do people have: -More free time? -A higher standard of living? -A longer longevity? -Better educated? -Better cultured? -Better informed? -More free? The answer is no. All of these standards have declined. One might surmise that we have become enslaved by technology. That, perhaps, Ted Kaczynski was correct all along. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unabomber_Manifesto At 35,000 words, Industrial Society and Its Future lays very detailed blame on technology for destroying human-scale communities.[5] Kaczynski contends that the Industrial Revolution harmed the human race by developing into a sociopolitical order that subjugates human needs beneath its own. This system, he wrote, destroys nature and suppresses individual freedom. In short, humans adapt to machines rather than vice versa, resulting in a society hostile to human potential.[7] Kaczynski indicts technological progress with the destruction of small human communities and rise of uninhabitable cities controlled by an unaccountable state. He contends that this relentless technological progress will not dissipate on its own because individual technological advancements are seen as good despite the sum effects of this progress. Kaczynski describes modern society as defending this order against dissent, in which individuals are adjusted to fit the system and those outside it are seen as bad. This tendency, he says, gives rise to expansive police powers, mind-numbing mass media, and indiscriminate promotion of drugs.[7] He criticizes both big government and big business as the ineluctable result of industrialization,[5] and holds scientists and "technophiles" responsible for recklessly pursuing power through technological advancements.[7] He argues that this industrialized system's collapse will be devastating and that quickening the collapse will mitigate the devastation's impact. --- Ideas that matter.