Symptoms of this new epidemic can be easily detected. You’ll find the infected walking with their heads down and thumbs moving like mad. They often appear to be in a trance, randomly walking into closed doors and generally ignoring one another as they go about their daily business. You’ll find them pulling their phones out every few minutes to check the time, to check for messages, and anxiously jumping every time they hear a ring or felt a vibration.
Perhaps the most deadly form of texting is “autotexting”. Quickly pass, or keep your distance from a drivers whose head is bobbing quickly up and down while the car is swerving lane to lane. The loss of a cell phone or computer sends the infected into a frenzy. They will feel rushes of anxiety, constantly be touching their pockets and experience a feeling of nakedness. These behaviours reflect their desire to be constantly connected, and their fear of being out of touch.
Technology is the new way of life and I completely accept it, but are we going to far? I recently travels to a larger city and was at a pub with a friend when he asked the bartender, “Can I have a pint of beer and half a pint of coke?” Sorry, replied the bar tender, “you can’t have the coke, pints and half pints of soft drinks are not on the computer.” Not on the computer? Wow, they now control what we can and cannot drink. Fascinating.
Obviously the world would not end without computers, but it would just make things a lot harder and less efficient. It would result in the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs. We are the age of new technology, but next time you are wondering the streets like a mindless drone, say hello to the person next to you.
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BRIANNE!
lol i love your blogs. and it’s true there have been times that i needed to send out an important text and whatnot and I was all focus on the phone yet still making my way to and from class (infact you were there once when i was taking stairs down and texting) but we do truly rely on our phones quite a bit to be connected, to feel secure, and incase of emergencies.
oh and P.S. stop trying to distance yourself from technology by not having your phone on you. I CAN’T GET A HOLD OF YOU! lol
I enjoyed your blog about computer crazyness. The computers in the bar kinda shock me, but yet, I should expect it in this day and age. I think computers in the bar make it easier for anyone to be a bartender, but then what about those people who take the bar tending course? Does that mean that they will be out of a job because anyone can just be a bartender ( who is of age of course). This idea scares me because what if technology of our future cuts out teachers, just like technology has minimized factory workers? I recgonize the advancements of technology but I can’t help but wonder if it is going over board?
Wow, i totally agree your whole post. The world seems to have gone crazy with technology. Especially the whole text message thing. My best friend was actually in a car accident a while ago cause by checking a text on her cell phone, she rolled her car on the highway, in the end she was fine, but talk about the dangers of “autotexting”. It’s amazing to think that something as basic as a text message can make us do things that in danger the lives of ourselves and others.
Technology seems to play a large role in controlling our communication habits, causing relationships to be digital and making in person contact almost obsolete. Technology is also controlling the way we live, in a lot of cases taking the place of decision making and free will, only giving us computer programmed options to choose from. At the same time, technology is allowing us as the human race to accomplish things we never thought possible, allowing us to better ourselves and our society. I guess the question is, like you said, are we going to far? and how will we know if or when we do… Hopefully someone can find an answer, and allow the world of technological and human progress to flourish as a whole.