Technology Today

Ingenious. Momentous. Transcending. Fuckin weird.

There are aspects that I find extremely intriguing and obviously groundbreaking, and other parts of technology that I find utterly too powerful and excessively engulfing of our “real” lives. At what point is too much? Are we creating and indulging in a new reality that may gain more power than we can even conceive? The fact that so much public information is accessible is quite scary to me. If you were curious, with the click of a button or a simple voice command to Siri, you could pinpoint my exact location and my last thought released via Twitter, Facebook, or another virtual social realm (And if you don’t know who Siri is, just Google it or look around you and anyone holding the newest IPhone will also hold the answer).

I don’t like this. To some extent, I want to preserve some sort of personal mystery that an app can’t answer.

I realize how hypocritical I am as I conveniently type this blog on my Dell laptop in an overly sized Starbucks café, which will then be posted publicly on my blog site for the world to see. I openly admit I take advantage of technology, just as technology has taken advantage of me. As I type, I look to the left of me to find a seven-ish year old entranced in a game of Fruit Ninja on her mom’s IPhone. Seven-ish may seem extreme or not to some of you, but fun and games turns to concern for me when I am faced with the reality that some 2 year old baby knows how to work an IPad better than me. See for yourself and add a digit to his whopping 534 thousand and something You Tube views. 
---> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGMsT4qNA-c

I don’t like this. I can confidently claim that at this point, technology is too much.

I have come to terms with the fact that new technological discoveries and creations will be made at an exceedingly fast pace. This is my generation. A generation in which I struggle to quicken my every step and conform in accordance with the ever-changing newness surrounding me. If there ever is a time when I feel like I’m falling behind in adapting to the speedy developments that emerge, I need not to worry because I’m sure there will be an app created for this deficiency. For now I’ll just resort to the press of my Android’s easy button.

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