Even though technology so often works so well for us, we often find that sometimes it is able to work against us... and when it is working against us, we find that it can be rather effective at totally de-railing us. Sometimes I feel as though technology has built a highway over a dirt-road and that’s all smooth-driving until the introduction of tarmac means pot-holes, when before potholes were never a problem. So right now my internet is down- as you may have guessed from my very revealing title of this post. But an even greater tragedy than an offline connection is that fact that I don’t even need to be online. Technology has created a need that technology can’t satisfy. Now to catch the next train to somewhere I’m not planning on going...
Monday, 31 March 2008
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Even though technology so often works so well for us, we often find that sometimes it is able to work against us... and when it is working against us, we find that it can be rather effective at totally de-railing us. Sometimes I feel as though technology has built a highway over a dirt-road and that’s all smooth-driving until the introduction of tarmac means pot-holes, when before potholes were never a problem. So right now my internet is down- as you may have guessed from my very revealing title of this post. But an even greater tragedy than an offline connection is that fact that I don’t even need to be online. Technology has created a need that technology can’t satisfy. Now to catch the next train to somewhere I’m not planning on going...
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