on Wednesday we discussed technology and how it is becoming a major incorporation in our lives. i feel it has become more than just an incorporation. it has become our lives. what has happened to our culture? what is this notion of "plugged in," and why is it everyone's necessity? what does it even mean? what is it about "digital" that draws us, compels us, make us desire it's characterization?
so these days all i see is everyone walking around with their headphones glued to their ears as if the ears extended out into a white wire and ended with a 3.5mm jack, searching for a plug. ipods, iphones, mp3 players, cell phones, laptops, organizers, schedulers. mostly everyone is always plugged in, to the internet, the stream, the digital dimension. what happened to the days where conversation was held randomly, a hand was used to gesture hello or goodbye as one passed another. i guess "i"pod explains it a little. it seems as if everyone is locked into the digital dimension and zoned out. like drones that are roaming from place to place with their starbucks cup in hand and vibing to the digital rift. what do we make of this? what's in the future? it seems as though "digitalism " has become our lives, the next step would assume that it take over our lives...
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I agree with you, for the most part. Technology is consuming us. Even I don't know how people used to live without cell phones or the internet. But we can't forget about the positive advances in technology, in the medical field, in transportation, in safety and security systems, in obtaining information, and working more efficiently. I do wonder, though, what it will be like 20, even 5, years from now. It seems like the age of technology is accelerating at an extremely fast rate.
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