No, You Moron, We Are Not Moving Too Fast
Are you kidding me, Brad?
You’re saying we need to slow down? If anything, we’re not moving fast enough.
I mean, look at everything that has been made available to us in the past decade because of advances in technology:
- We can stream movies instantly, directly to our personal computers.
- We can be alerted each morning about amazing deals in our hometown.
- Our fantasy football scores are automatically tabulated IN REAL TIME.
- I can bring my entire CD collection with me to the gym.
- If I had an Xbox 360, I could play a game of Madden against my friend, who lives an hour away, from the comfort of my basement.
- We can buy our groceries online.
- Robot slaves do our bidding.
If I tried hard enough, I could live, work and play without ever leaving my living room. ‘Course, that doesn’t indicate a need for speed, but it shows that’s I’m willing to embrace the technology, thus, freeing up time for other things, allowing me to do more.
So to say that we need to slow down is absurd. Look around you. Everybody is moving faster than they were the day before. Those who stop to smell the roses are going to get clipped by the hordes of people cruising down the information superhighway, like an elderly woman standing in front of Target on Black Friday.
And all of that talk about technology re-altering or brains, or something? That’s bunk.
If anything, technology is…is…wait, what was I saying? Actually, forget it. I have to check my e-mail.
