Let Them Print Cake! #227 By Hank Silverberg Technology is a good thing. If people didn't strive for better gadgets and the solutions they bring, we would still be living in the stone age. But sometimes technology can also have some unforeseen and annoying consequences. Two things happened this week that put that into perspective. I sat down to watch some TV the other day hoping to catch a movie on Prime Video before streaming a Red Sox preseason game. I hit all the proper buttons on the remote and then got this message on a darkened screen: "Internet browser will be closed due to internal error." My initial reaction was--darn, the internet is down again. But no. After a quick check with Verizon it became clear the problem was with my nine-year- old SONY Smart TV. I could not get through to SONY until the next morning where it was explained to me that the software in my TV was obsolete...
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