From a radio course text

★ NHKラジオテキスト英語5分間トレーニング、11月27日分に次のようなモノローグがあった。
 
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。