Technology Is Like A Child
What does today offer that yesterday didn’t? An opportunity?
Technology can offer an incredible advantage or a devastating drawback. We’ve already taken so many of the newest technologies and woven them into our everyday lives. Most of the time, we don’t even think of them as options, but rather as essential foundation stones for our lives. And we feel it when we lose them.
I spoke with a friend who was entering church the other day. He was immensely frustrated that his super tech smart phone wasn’t working that day. Perhaps frustration is too gentle a word, maybe something closer to angry would fit better. We do spend an inordinate amount of time, updating, appending, modifying, reloading, downloading, uploading, trouble shooting and massaging our tech tools and toys. In return they allow us opportunities (hopefully) to save time in other areas. On occasion, the digital world can save trees (paperless), reduce mailing costs (downloads), save money (all of the above) and if allowed, this same world can entrap us into a dependent prison. When we start letting a computer think for us, we’ve given up on a very important part of life.
Use technology but don’t fully depend on it. The same technology that advances us, also threatens our very existence when misused or in some cases, when it breaks down. Oil drilling and oil leaks, genetic engineering and viral outbreaks, nuclear power and nuclear meltdowns, smart phones and lost phones, driving and texting, these are but a few (of the millions of) examples of this double edged sword.
Common sense, risk/reward, you need to make each decision individually. Treat technology like a precious child but beware of the endless growing pains.
JC CALKINS with COMMON SENSE 4 UNCOMMON PEOPLE
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