I’ll admit it. I’m as guilty as the next person when it comes to being glued to my phone. Yes, I’m distressed when I look around at a group of friends out to dinner and see them all on their phones, but what can I say? I do it too.
What really gets me though is that I know I don’t need it. Somewhere, deep in a drawer, is my old Nokia 3315. Gosh I loved that phone. It did everything I needed it to, and for years I refused to upgrade, until eventually I did, because everyone had, and somehow that created a need.
Technology changes lives, saves lives and improves lives, but like many things that can be used for good, it can also be just plain bad.
Companies, driven by the desire for money and success, create, improve and reinvent. And like lemmings we lap it up. We pour out our hard earned cash to buy the newest thing, because it’s new.
We don’t need it, but the very fact that everyone buys it creates a need.
There is no accountability; no one who looks at new technology and asks: Will this be truly beneficial for society in the long run? They just create and we consume.
Could we be lining our graves because we follow without thinking, people who are creating without thinking, and there is no one to tell them when enough is enough?
sarsrose 