Saturday, February 12, 2011
The Steady March of The Technology Drum
Emails about homework, or jobs or bills , Cellphone calls from your work, text messages and phone calls while your driving, other people driving while texting. These are just a short list of the frustrations and dangers of emails and cellphones. While these technologies have made our lives more difficult by giving us more things to worry about, they have also given us the ability to contact people where ever they are. This can be again rather invasive it invades our privacy, I've had to tell people at work on a number of occasions that I can't come in early because I'm out of town. These technologies don't really succeed at bringing us together. At my work even today I stood and completed a sale with someone who couldn't show me the decentcy of getting off their phone, and I assisted someone else to select a camera while they were talking on the phone, only to later have them rush me because they were "on lunch." I don't enjoy this diplomatic process of helping people who would rather phone chat.
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I feel exactly the same way. I feel that technology is super advanced today while pushing us into "I must have the new gadget that is coming out tomorrow." We feel that if we do not have the latest and the greatest technology that we are lagging behind. On the other hand, technological advances in the medical field have greatly increased our life span and our health benefits.
ReplyDeleteBeing available constantly 24/7 has begun to be irritating for me as I do not want to be on guard all the time. I find that my personal space and time are diminishing right before my eyes. Oh well! Life goes on and the techno experts keep finding ways to advance our technology.
This too is one of my pet peeves. I have had dinner with someone who was having a conversation with me and a text conversation with someone else simultaneously. I have gotten down right grumpy about having to be available to everyone at all times. I will turn off my cell phone on weekends, just to give myself some semblance of privacy. While technology is great if you are stuck on the side of the road with a flat tire, being available at all times of the day is too invasive.
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