From a radio course text
Time was when you could get by without a computer. Those days are gone for
以前は 永久に
good.
I used to avoid computers as much as possible. But I couldn't keep that up for
long. It was becoming a handicap. Ready or not, the computer age is here. Now we rely on computers for everything. That means spending hours of your daily life staring at a screen. There's no way around it, though. Like it or not, the future's
それは避けられない
in computers. I do hope they'll become more people-friendly in the future.
人にやさしい
わたしも同感だ。