Life Without Electronics?!

Yeah, scares me, too. Over the past week the monitor on my laptop snapped a hinge and my so-called smart phone took a roofie or something. Guess who doesn't know any phone number by heart?
This gal!
OK. Deep breaths and all that stuff. I knew there was a chance of losing valuable information if something happened to one of my two lifelines. It's happened before. Twice I have lost months of writing on the perfect novel to a hard-drive fry. I thought, hey, I will just get one of those portable hard-drives. Simple solve but it doesn't change the fact that I have all of that re-programming to do on a teeny weeny screen.

As for the laptop, so far it is holding up as long as I never EVER close it again and I remember that when I want to save something it has to be on the portable and not the laptop itself.
Makes me think, though. What ever happened to the simple address book. The kind I had when I was a teen. It had everyone in it in alphabetical order and easy enough to update. No Internet required. Just a sharpened pencil.
My budget? I used to have that written neatly in a comp book. No expensive budgeting books or electronic do-dad to keep track of it. Easy to check on a figure even without power.
Communication? Snail mail may be slower than what we have become accustomed to, but it does get the job done and wasn't it just a bit more personal?

Have we become so complacent that we have to have an app or electronic device to be able to function? I don't know.

I am pulling out my old comp books that have been collecting dust from college and I think it's time to put them to use.
Already started on one with passwords (yeah, more electronic dependence. Sue me! lol).
What do you think? Do we rely too much on technology or not enough? How do u handle these kind of situations? Let me know in the comments below.
And thanks for letting me rant :D Love ya!