So what really are the effects of too many people being stuck on technological advances? Well that's the question that I began asking myself after waking up this morning at my "friends" house trying to get ready for work and she starting OD'ing talking about how f*cked she was and how she wouldn't be able to function because she left her cellphone charger at my house the night before and now her cellphone battery is dead. Now no disrespect to her but I know this broad, like everybody else all she wants her cellphone for is to look up women's health quotes, read Queen Latifah lyrics, or browse through the FML widget...it's not like she's closing multi-million dollar deals or coordinating life or death circumstances. So as somewhat of a traditionalist I couldn't help but to wonder how the substance of people has evolved as the dependencies on technology heightens...not that having some kind of inadequacy in lifestyle change if all the remote control batteries were gone, cellphones, light switches, or the microwave power cords but just the fact that some people would actually break down and not know how to function without what in reality are just, simple conveniences. So as a IT Proj Mgr I guess by job description I'm just somewhat a little more in tune with the unintended consequences of technology and the implications of innovation thereof, so I guess I feel if people would just be a lil more conscious about the technology they use then subconsciously they wouldn't allow themselves to be so dependent on it neither.
Case in point: For example the new social networking phenomenon that has arisen within the last decade amongst Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Black planet, etc. Many people jump on these sites, expose as much of if not all of there personal information...schools they've been to, where the work, where they hang out, pictures of friends of family, etc with absolutely no consideration for privacy or solitude of state but then have the nerve to wonder why instances arise for example with
