I hold technology tightly and then loosely. Then tightly again. I can’t decide whether I love it and it actually serves to enrich my life or that I hate it and it controls my life.
Its part of modern life, and in fact, a generation below me will know a world where this level of communication has clothed them from birth.
For me, i have grown up with payphones and newspapers. The most sophisticated bit of kit in the house was the remote control followed by the toaster. The computer, (if you can call it that, not sure it wasn’t an abacus in a polymer shell) was a VIC 20 and the calculator found on the end of my casio ruler (matt black) had a larger memory. Our toy poodle had a larger memory.
Today, you can’t touch anything in the house without it having to disconnect…error…wireless connection broken. Bla bla bla. I think if all this technology was used purely for social use it would be fine but my introduction to most of it, (including MS DOS) was through my various jobs. As a result computers are the Jeckyl & Hyde of my life. One guy is an idiot, I don’t want to see his face around town again. The Hyde cat, he I have time for.
