This is an easy question to answer for myself. It’s the Internet.
Through the internet, I can explore any location, interact with other cultures, learn about any topic, and while away every single day.
Day after day.
A computer, smartphone, or even a tablet, without internet access, is suddenly a whole lot less appealing.
What would I do without the internet?
Well, I might rummage through my closet to find some old CDs or DVDs, maybe find an old game to install, or a movie to watch.
Oh! Wait, I haven’t got a drive that can read them.
The only accessible ports are USB, so let’s head back to the closet and find my old thumb drive collection.
Gosh! That won’t work either.
Why? Because I moved everything to the Cloud, I need Internet access to get to my stuff.
I don’t deny the usefulness of the internet; in fact, I can’t get by without it. Everything from my investments and banking to school and healthcare is all digital nowadays.
If it were out of my life, I would most certainly be better off as far as my physical and mental health.
Those console emulators I downloaded back in the 90’s really got in the way of my middle school education.
Financially, too, since I wouldn’t have been able to drop everything on the stock market, I wouldn’t have indulged in Cryptocurrency or gotten hooked on mobile games.
So my answer is the Internet.
With the benefit of hindsight, that is the technology I would have been better off without.
