I have to admit that I like technology. I don't always get the latest gadget, but I enjoy learning about it and waiting until I can get it used from a friend who is throwing theirs away. I suppose you could say that I'm a late adopter.
Like most things (i.e. money), technology is neutral, a-moral, as in it doesn't possess within itself anything intrinsically good or bad. You can use it for good...or not for good.
The worst thing about our love affair with technology turns out to be morbidly ironic. We spend so much energy texting, and Twittering, and IMing, and yes, blogging or vlogging or whatever- all mediums designed to increase human communication- that I fear we are fast losing the art of person-to-person contact. We communicate so much that we never communicate at all. We have spread ourselves so thin with technology that we lose deep and lasting contact with just a few people.
The scariest part of technology is not scary to some people at all. We have a constructed a network of devices and services that cater to you, the individual. What do you want? What sites do you like to surf? Post a video about your opinion! The most important person is you. Wrong! We do not need any help making things more and more us-centered. We already have that figured out as humans. Thanks but no thanks, technology.
But like I said before, technology is neutral. The problem lies with us. Human nature doesn't seem to change much, and where there are people like you and I who are obsessed with ourselves, technology will be there ready to broadcast that to the world.
Have I angered some people? Or do you agree?
Very well said Andrew! I completely agree.
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