as well as connecting with loved ones and friends our lives are most certainly controlled by technology. The way I think, write an everyday note, from spelling to math I'm using some sort of technology.
Our social media has taken over. From on-line college degrees, to banking, to the shopping, chatting, and even dating, our world and behavior is affected. We no longer correspond as our ancesters did. We date online where they met in public and they wrote actual letters and did math in their heads, on paper (counting on their fingers) and actually walking into a store and shopping. My behaviour is such that I shop online and have it brought to me. Why fight the crowds? Waste gas and time? But as we look at the entire picture it shows us what a technological society has become, as distant in personality and everyday connections as we are from the moon.
I hear what you are saying and I do not disagree one bit. You know the one thing that is missing from our classes posts? What happened to the satisfaction from doing things ourselves? I still use technology, but feel very gratified if I can do something without tech gadgets in a case where other people would not even try. Call me old fashion, I still have a VCR, land-line, and even a camera you still put film in! I think back to the days when I had to get up to change the TV channel or go outside to game. Were they so bad before all this technology? Who has control of whom.....
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