There's a different between wanting something and needing it. When it comes to technology we use in our daily lives nowadays, I feel it's more of a want through great marketing rather than the need for it.

This is an amazing view. I've been here a couple of days. And a couple of days ago, I actually posted something on LinkedIn that for me has gone viral.

It's got 20,000 views, impressions, or whatever it is. Anyway, I've had loads of comments on it.

And it was a video that some guy made that I effectively stole. Yes, people share things on the internet.

And this guy made a video about a trunk or a boot of a car closing with a with a button press. And my take was was basically not 'all good technology is good technology' in the sense that do we really need it.

Now, I have an old truck that I can fix literally with duct tape and a hammer effectively. In fact I'm going to go and put on some togs, and actually fix something on this which you can't do on modern cards.

I'll be back in a minute...

So i've got the tools out, I've got the parts out, I've got to add a check valve to the petrol tank because it's having issues.

Now, the beauty of this car, of old cars, of things that don't have technology, because not all technology is good technology.

Yes, it's nice to have the button to open and close the door, but then you have to have a computer.

Computers go wrong.

I've been in tech for 35 years.

Computers always go wrong.

It just happens, whether it's the technology itself, like the components are failing. or whether it's the software that's created and there's a bug in it.

Basically, software I understand, has bloats because people want specific features.

I get that.

And I had that comment yesterday, "well, it's different with software rather than hardware"

Well, no, hardware still needs software. The technology is there because it needs the software to run.

With old cars, with things that are manual, analog, and I'm not here to say, did analogs better than digital.

The point is not all technology is good technology.

You don't need it.

There's a difference between needing and wanting.

You may want it.

I would love to have a button to be able to do this thing, but do you need it? Is it a necessity?

Now, there is another thing to that as well, and I'll get to that in a moment.

Hold on one sec... Let me get this ready, get under the car.

This is so simple to fix. Check valve basically means it blows one way, but not the other way, so I don't have petrol coming back.

Sorry, the return valve, so the petrol doesn't go into the return valve, so it doesn't cause a problem with the end, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Anyway, I'll be back in a sec... Hold on.

Oh man, this is...

Beauty of having a 4x4 is that it's high up, so I can go underneath it. But there are rocks everywhere, so that's a problem.

So, got my parts, got my trusty tool, and I'm going to put the check valve in.

So again, the issue isn't... the fact of having the feature is whether we need the feature. And I can understand there are some people that need the feature, you know, for accessibility and so on.

Again, I had another comment about that.

I understand accessibility. I get it. There are some people that need it. But the people that want it are the people with, you know, shopping bags.

Okay, it will be handy to have it. But the fact that you want it means that I have to pay more for that technology.

Hold on a minute...

Okay before I put this in and lose my thought...

So 'why would it cost more?'

Well you're putting technology somewhere where somebody else doesn't want it maybe the majority of people don't actually need that, want it, need it, or want it, or need it, or just want it, they don't want it, they don't need it.

And why is it going to cost the car costs more?

Because you're putting more technology, you're putting more resources, the car is going to cost more. Not only that, the more technology you have in something, it's more likely to go wrong.

So you don't actually, I wouldn't want it, I wouldn't need it, I can put my things on a wet floor, it's just the way it is.

Yes, it would make things easier, yes it would make things nicer, and if it's an option when you're purchasing fine.

But even that the fact that the R&D and marketing and the workforce the factories everything has to create that technology so there is still a cost.

Just because it's an option and then you say opt out.

I don't want this feature the cost has already been created. The cost has already been factored into the price of the overall vehicle, or thing or technology or whatever.

Here I am underneath my car fixing a freaking fuel line because it's easy to do. There's absolutely no fudge packet way that you could do this on any other kind.

And I know this from first experience.

My old car being a Mercedes A Class, it had a problem with the starter motor And I was told that, I know now that you have to drop the engine and these engineers the way they've created this thing.

You have to drop the engine to change the the starter motor. It was insane!

Anyway, I'm going to finish this and then I'll finish off the video. Hold it one second...

Okay, let's see if this thing works now...

And there we have it! It works! Beautiful!

I'm just going to check the actual engine compartment there you have it works...

So again, the point isn't...

Wait, let me turn this engine off. Hold on...

So again, the point isn't whether we want something. The point of technologies to help us, yes, I understand.

I'm in technology.

But the point isn't to overcomplicate technology with features that only a handful of people... or...  I'm not saying, you know... that we shouldn't have these things because, again, some people need them.

But we have to think about whether it's needed everywhere. Whether it should be an option or whether it's needed at all.

I've just fixed this car in about 20 minutes.

Obviously, it's YouTube or it's a video, so I have to cut it.

But I've been able to fix this throughout my road trip while I'm here. Well, I'm here in Spain.

Not that there's anything wrong with it. It's just I love tinkering.

You can't do this with new cars. It's just impossible. It is impossible!

You need computer diagnosis tools, you need schematics, you need everything.

And there's some... I mean... what I've heard is that the new... I think the BMWs, you can't even do an oil change in your car because they wanted to make the technology 'so good' that you have to go to a main dealer to do it!

It's insanity!

If I buy a car, I want to be able to do anything and everything with it.

It's my car.

And with this new technology that can be, that your car can be turned off or certain feature turned on, turned on or off because you haven't paid the subscription or you're, it's just insanity.

So again, I will die on this hill.

Not all technology is good technology.

And we've got to... you guys who are developers who are watching this... whatever, developers, programmers, you've got to think.

You've got to...

You guys who are developers who are watching this, you've got to, think, do we need it?

Not, "let's just put it in because it's possible" or "let's put it in because we can squeeze money out of these, uh, of our customers".

Not all technology good technology.

And again, I will die on this hill... not literally this hill.

It's beautiful, that.

Very cool.

Anyway, do what you will with that. And, I'll see you in the next video, at some point.

Bye.