More on technology, this time with favour

"It's my memory. I call it my other brain," said Ms. Walmsley. "It's not a cool gadget. It's my lifeline."

So says a diagnosed amnesia sufferer, referencing her smartphone.

While many of us here at the Lair don't suffer from amnesia (well, let's just say we've not been diagnosed), I think we can identify with that. In fact, I remember a contributor of many a fine morsel at the Lair stating boldly in reference to one such device/program: "It basically runs my life."

I have to say that, as a late adopter, and as one who suffers from amnesia of a certain variety (My beloved prefers to call it squirrel syndrome), such little devices have dramatically improved my life. I'm serious. If I had a blackberry with outlook earlier in my life, I would have avoided much heartache. I'm assuming a hearty "hear hear" from the readers here familiar with my past ways.

Does anyone at the Lair have any examples of technology that has significantly improved their lives?

I love to tell the story

"Mistake me not," said the Cardinal, "the literature of which we are speaking—the literature of individuals, if we may call it so—is a noble art, a great, earnest and ambitious human product. But it is a human product. The divine art is the story. In the beginning was the story. At the end we shall be privileged to view, and review, it—and that is what is named the day of judgment.
"But you will remember," he remarked, as in a parenthesis and with a smile, "that the human characters in the book do come forth on the sixth day only—by that time they were bound to come, for where the story is, the characters will gather!"

h/t Culture Making

I think that there's something slightly amiss here: for some reason, I think it will be our stories that are viewed and reviewed alongside the divine story and not us who view and review the divine story, but nonetheless, I really, really appreciate this bit, and I think I'm going to try to pick up the book from the library.

Isak Dinesen, by the by, is really Karen Blixen (what a name!), of Babette's Feast and Out of Africa fame.

I'd like to ask those in the lair what they make of this, particularly with regard to how it relates to their relationships and the way in which they communicate with friends; those who recognize the divine art, and those who perhaps can't, don't, or won't see it.