Spoiled With Gadgets

If I was a composer fifty years ago, I'd be screwed.  Heck, even twenty years ago I'd be in trouble.  Without musical technology, I'd never get anything done.  I remember when I was around ten years old and trying to write down melodies on actual music paper.  I would write maybe one or two lines of music and then take a cartoon break.  I shudder now when I think of physically writing down musical ideas -- how much effort that would take!  Finding a sharp enough pencil, buying music paper, running out, buying more music paper, writing actual music down in correct notation, ugh!  I'm sure Bach would be rolling over in his grave if he heard me talk about how lazy I am.  Bach wrote hundreds, literally thousands of works, all written down on music paper, and I can't finish one without the aide of musical technological devices, most of which I don't even know how work.  Musicians are spoiled with technology nowadays.  I've got my laptop with musical notation software, I've got my trusty keyboard in my dorm room, and my cell phone which I can sing into to record ideas while I'm in the shower washing my armpits, and yet I still feel too lazy to compose.  The world is giving me on a silver platter all the tools I need and yet I cannot execute my job without an inordinate amount of motivation.