Think about people's lives 50 year ago. what did people use to have instead of today's modern devices? вот по этому образцу people's lives have changed a lot because people used to have instead. now they use it's much more convenient / fast / economical / pleasant .. but it's less natural / beautiful / healthy.
In the place of the modern things 50 years ago people used light candles and torches instead of the TV and computers back because then there was no any.