Monday, May 23, 2011

anything anywhere anytime

With today's technology, you can do anything, anywhere, at any time. Say you suddenly have the urge to travel to a foreign land. Well there's planes for that. Say you want to create your own movie. Well, lights, camera, action! Say you want to start your own business. The internet is full of entrepreneurial options.
Alright now let's say you want to do something really difficult. Give me some ideas and I will show you how possible it is using the technology we are blessed to have at our fingertips.
For instance, right now I am lying in bed typing this blog on my iPhone. Yes, there's an app for that. Earlier tonight I entertained myself playing some "Angry Birds" (if you aren't one of the 3 million+ people who have downloaded it already, get on that). There's nothing more entertaining than slingshotting a bunch of birds at blocks trying to kill green pigs. Before that I checked my email via phone and also played a couple rounds of "Words with Friends". This is scrabble the 21st century way. Board games are more like bored games now.
This is the digital age. We buy things with digital money. We play digital games. We have email versus using the post office. We get E-zines instead of newspapers and magazines. We drive cars, fly planes, and ride trains underground. We tan in beds instead of the sun and we run on treadmills instead of outside. We'd rather text than call. We prefer facebook to books and sometimes even to faces.
Are we spoiled? Has this made us lazy? The generation of instant gratification is now. We want our food made fast, and our wifi faster. Does this also make us think that we don't have to or shouldn't have to work hard? If everything comes so easy to us digitally, does this make it hard for us to accept when things take work?
What I mean is, what is the correlation, if any, between the advances in technology and laziness? Can we blame video games for us not exercising? Can we blame facebook for us never having real-life friendships? Can we blame cell phones and television for us not getting our chores around the house done? At what point do we start taking responsibility and decide to use technology to further us, to mature us, and to assist us in reaching our goals?
Technology is a great thing and it makes our lives a lot easier. But as of now, technology cannot clean your house for you. It cannot go to work for you. And it definitely cannot substitute for real human interaction.
I hope that we can find ways of putting down the games, myself included, and opening up our doors. There is so much world out there to see and google images just doesn't cut it.
Xoxo

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