Does anyone else not find it ridiculous how much technology has taken over so many things in our lives? Not necessarily in all bad ways. But some things are becoming completely obsolete that even just a few years ago we probably couldn't imagine life without. I mean we're even losing the need for books. Have you seen those Kindle things? Sure e-books have been around for a while, but they're becoming more and more popular. Can you imagine the world without any books?
Sure, technology has produced some great things for the good of mankind. Mainly in the medical industry or in ways that actually do the environment good and protect our limited natural resources. The world probably wouldn't be turning right now if it wasn't for the help of those things.
For the most part though, it's just made us lazier. Have you seen the app. on certain phones that you can shut your garage door with? Or your lights off? I mean this even goes back to the Clapper. How lazy are you that you can't get up and shut your lights off? Technology is contradicting itself too, on some new phones you can Skype without using any airtime. What is honestly the point? You're paying for phone service to not even use it. It's completely killing human interaction too. There's these girls who sit on social networking sites that beg for picture comments. Has it come down to the fact that no one can walk up to someone anymore and say "hey, you look nice today."? A friend recently told me that being "tweeted" back to was like a virtual applause. A VIRTUAL APPLAUSE!? That's insane. Can people not have normal conversations anymore, with feedback in person? Really I'm contradicting myself, I could very easily be having this conversation with a group of people, hearing their thoughts on the situation, as opposed to the Internet waiting for a comment.
But this is honestly the way things work now. Again, not necessarily a bad thing. But would we ever want things to go back to the way they used to be, whether they were more complicated or simpler before technology got to it? Have we adapted to the point where we couldn't even go back if we had to? What have we done to ourselves? Is it good or bad? I'm blaming the Clapper. It started this.
