Such a Chore

I am pretty much an IT idiot (and my sis will be the moron while my brother is the whiz). Just got back my barely 4 mths old laptop from repair! The whole harddisk crashed! Yeesh, cannot make it. Lost all my personal data, music and photos. Have to pain-stakingly amass them together again. Now, trying to set up all the other softwares and programs. So ma fan.
We have become so reliant on technology. What happened to the good old paper and pen way of documentation? Everything is now done on the computer. Of cos, the advantages of computers are endless, but still, people have become so dependent on technology to do our work, that something like hard disk crash will cost many ppl many nights of sleep.
Similarly, how many of us can survive without our hp for a day. e.g. If you realise that you forgot to bring your hp out at the busstop, will you rather turn back home to pick it up and cost you say $15 cab fare, or live without it for a day? How many of us actually can remember more than 10 telephone numbers?Especially ones of friends whom we have not known for long? What happened to the brilliant telephone number memory that we used to have? I know I lost it somewhere along the lines of growing up...