APAD: It's the greatest thing since sliced bread

Meaning:

What a great idea (often expressed in a somewhat sarcastic way)

 

Background:

 

In 1928, Otto Frederick Rohwedder of Davenport, Iowa produced the first

commercially viable bread slicing machine. It was first put into use by the

Chillicothe Baking Company in Missouri who advertised the resulting product as

"the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped". It

is believed that this slogan provided the genesis of the "the greatest thing

since sliced bread" - which became a popular phrase around the middle of the

20th century.

 

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After decades of trying to invent, create, and prove myself smart with little

success, I started to doubt. Is it possible that all the greatest things before

and since sliced bread deliver us not? Labor-saving machines, e.g., turn out

abundance and make living more comfortable and yet comfort, above some level,

seems to hit diminishing returns.

 

An overdose can hurt, actually. When I was little, I dreamed to be a scientist,

the kind that don white coats, sit in the office, and have chauffeurs to drive

them around. (At the time, there were probably less than a dozen automobiles in

our little town.) Nowadays, everyone drives and people get sick more often from

a sedentary life style and maybe too much bread.