1960: go to you local hardware- or electric appliance store and buy a lamp. Whilst doing that, chat with the shopkeeper and complain about the weather. Go home, change the bulb and check if it works. Job done. Content with the easy and painless job you head to the icebox and take an ice-cold brewskie.
2019: go on-line and search for a reasonably priced 'smart' LED lamp (in my country, the 'old' filament bulbs are banned and no longer available). Pick a lamp, proceed to check out and complain about the fact you have to make an account first but don't want to start all over again to find a store where you can check out as a guest.
Wait two days for the package to arrive but because you are at work, you will have to pick it up at a local package distribution centre (often your local hardware store or tobacconist).
Go home, open the package and read the manual. Go on-line again to download the app to control the lamp with. Register the app. Change the lamps and follow the steps in the app. Does it blink rapidly? Yes, proceed to the next step to connect it to your WiFi network. Your are done and switch on the lamp. But the app tells you that you first have to download new firmware (!) for the lamp. After 15 minutes you can finally switch on your new light bulb! Only to discover you still have to adjust the brightness and colour temperature!
Exhausted from all that work, you head to the fridge and take an ice-cold brewskie
2019: go on-line and search for a reasonably priced 'smart' LED lamp (in my country, the 'old' filament bulbs are banned and no longer available). Pick a lamp, proceed to check out and complain about the fact you have to make an account first but don't want to start all over again to find a store where you can check out as a guest.
Wait two days for the package to arrive but because you are at work, you will have to pick it up at a local package distribution centre (often your local hardware store or tobacconist).
Go home, open the package and read the manual. Go on-line again to download the app to control the lamp with. Register the app. Change the lamps and follow the steps in the app. Does it blink rapidly? Yes, proceed to the next step to connect it to your WiFi network. Your are done and switch on the lamp. But the app tells you that you first have to download new firmware (!) for the lamp. After 15 minutes you can finally switch on your new light bulb! Only to discover you still have to adjust the brightness and colour temperature!
Exhausted from all that work, you head to the fridge and take an ice-cold brewskie