We are all people of different ages who have lived through changes in technology. Be it the first mobile phone to computers, it has changed in some fundamental way. In your opinion, what piece of tech has changed the most?
What technology has change the most in your lifetime?
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Internet. In good and in bad.
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Phone – this has changed by leaps… it used to be fixed, landline with rotary dial, then it went mobile, and now the state is we cannot live without it 
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I would say the phone just because I still have a Samsung 
flip phone.
I’m 40 and have seen both analog and digital lives…
I’ve seen TVs changing from BW to Color to HD to 4K
I’ve seen life without phone to life with landline phone to life with nokia phones to life with iPhones
I’ve lived in an era where even newspapers used to be delivered a day late. Now we get news on out phones “live”.
I guess internet and phones are the technologies with most leaps and bounds enhancements.
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A bunch of things so it’s really hard to pick just one, I’d say phones, internet, TV’s and game consoles
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Computers for me definitely…still remember doing programming on one of these at school for my computer lessons 
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TV, … Black n white, 3 channels,
now hundreds of channels, and full hd or higher, and interactive.
Mobile phones… Minimal colour, no emoji, no internet,… Call n text only
Then Nokia came along, with snake 
(best game ever!) And predictive text.
Then you had Palm PDA phones
Then GSM and a strange line drawn pictures on internet!
Now… Well, everything has changed and improved.
VHS/beta challenge. VHS won
Now, 3d and Blu-ray
Computers… Back in the day, 2 mega floppy discs… One with program code, 1 to save.
Well now… OMG
Internet
Now … enough said! Were doing this!
Nice topic - I think I would agree with all of them (cop out right?)
TV - no remote - you had to get up and change the channel! B&W - No DVR - had to WATCH COMMERCIALS!
Music is one that I’d like to bring up. I grew up with cassette tapes, you had to rewind and flip over to side B. You could have a fancy stereo and record songs you liked from the radio. You would sit and listen to the top 10 countdown and record ever so precisely!
Then it went to CD’s - that was the life! Skip Proof Walkmans. G Protection!!!
I was reminiscing the other day with my childhood friend who had just bought a mini disk player. We were sitting in my bedroom transferring the album Dr Dre Chronic 2001. I thought this was the FUTURE - coolest thing ever!
Fast forward just a few years the Mini Disk was obsolete, MP3 players were all the rage, even those have died.
This technology ZOOMED by us with lots and lots of change.
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I have lucky enough to have use Beta tapes & Atari 2600. For me smart phones have been the tech that has change the game. If not work related I don’t really use my home PC. Its the best all in one combo you can have.
Wow, you stole my thoughts buddy !
We always had that feeling that we have seen so much transition and knew things how they were before and after…
No idea how the next gen kids will be like… they will have no clue how we survived, actually had more quality life without these technology.
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Neil, you might believe it or not. 
When starting programming ALGOL60 I used punched tape and this monster:
It was working til 1974 at TUM MĂĽnchen.
Called PERM (Take a look at WIKI)
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Another name change 
I know most active ones by their pictures but this name change is giving shocks every day
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Lol, yeah I saw others doing it so I figured why not.
Internet for sure.
Lol at the username…can see a few questions from those not in the know on it 
Was trying to not cause a problem with making it either ^foo^bar or DROP_TABLE_ALL lol
I Google it, and I thought I sort of recognised it.
As a child of the 80’s I’ve seen a vast progression in every field from music, tv, phones, cars, medical services, games consoles to toilets 
All come about by advances in computing both hardware and software.
We are often too quick to forget how thing used to be, we were talking to the kids the other day about connecting to the internet and how to had to listen to the dial tone as it connected. And how it would disconnect if someone tried to call the landline.