"This is How We Live"

     I think Ellen DeGeneres makes a really good point in her book "The Funny Thing Is" that are newest advances in technology are becoming ridiculous because there just making us so lazy. I think it is not because we are lazy that people make up these advances, but i think people think that these new ideas sound good and will make a lot of money, but in the end the outcome is that we become lazy. I think when Ellen is talking about how they changed the system in cars from cranking windows up and down to using a button this is the perfect example. They took something (the crank in the car) that was already working perfectly fine and changed it (to the button) which yes maybe is a little more convienant but it was unneccassary in the first place because there was no problem with the crank. This is probably where Americans have the stereotype of being lazy. Because other countries see that we have all these newer advances in technology to make things that were already easy even easier.