We are probably not aware how much simpler and easier our lives can be. Since when we are young we are taught the value of working hard and we do not often think twice about working hard unless a much simpler way is taken up by everyone around us and the benefit stares us in the face. But of our own accord we rarely go looking for means to make tasks simpler if we are able to do them the harder way without too much sweat. But this means that we do not take the benefit of innovation each time we have the opportunity.
However innovation is great and time and again society has benefited from innovation which is why modern life is so different from that of even just fifty years ago. Of course the innovation is often made possible by the emergence of a new technology. As has happened once the electronic weight measurement technology arrived. It led to many new innovative weighing scales such as the pallet scale. Objects are often stored on pallet so that they do not suffer damage during extended periods of storage. Earlier it would have been necessary to take objects off the pallet and place them on a platform to weigh them. Now with the help of a pallet scale the pallet itself can be weighed and there is no need to move the objects. The entire process takes minutes and saves a lot of time and effort.