August 6, 2009
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Disconnected
I’m making final preparations for my deployment and grad school. Mailed my iPhone home today. I feel at a loss without it. How sad is that? I’ve become so used to being able to access the internet, email, and a thousand other things in seconds that being without it seems like a hardship. I can’t even remember how I used to survive without a cell phone. Anyone remember those days?
I finding it amazing how quickly we become dependent upon new technologies. Not so long ago, having a computer was a huge deal. Now, *not* having a computer is a big deal. I truly think that our technological leaps of innovation are going to rapidly outpace our society, if they haven’t done so already. Even now, we’re moving away from the printed word – the USPS is going under, books are being epublished, newspapers are being read online. How long will it be before a printed piece of paper will be considered archaic? Or even wasteful? (“What are you doing, trying to kill a tree?”). What kind of massive changes is that going to mean for our society? Lol, better yet, what are archeologists going to think thousands of years from now (assuming we haven’t caused the Earth to explode by then, erasing all evidence of our existence), when they can’t find any printed materials left, and all the hard drives have crashed and the electronic information decayed into nothingness (and as long as we keep using crappy OS like Windows Vista, that’s exactly what will happen). Will they think we lost our ability to communicate via the written word? Obtained a higher form of communication? Became so sociopathic that human contact was anathema?
I wish I could fast-forward into the future and find out.
Anyway, I got way off topic, but I guess it’s allowed. It’s my blog dammit.
My actual intention was to let my friends know that I’ve turned off my phone, so calling me is no longer an option. You can email me at any of my civilian or military accounts and I’ll get it. Except hotmail – I don’t really check that account too often.later
