What's the "tech" in the Past? Paying at the local office of the power service company, I see from the bill for the past month (August) is Php 1,900. I remember the first time I was sent to pay the bills when I was 14 years old, it was still under a thousand pesos. Bane of technology, eh? But all we had back then was a Cathode ray TV (the one that takes up too much space), 2 phones, an iron, a fridge and some lights. Today is a different story. A phone or two for each of us (three of us own phones), a new fridge (taking a new one was expected to help lower power costs), an LTE modem, a laptop, a new, larger TV (because when people get older, they need to see things bigger), electric fans, and some basics we had before. I remember before when we started noticing the bills getting higher by the month, my mother would start a nostalgic sermon on how liitle electric bills would eat from her salary. She was talking about the 80’s. She says our gadgets are to blame for