Living in the twenty first century can be daunting on a number of fronts. The more senior amongst us are coming to terms with a new technology in our working and personal lives. My husband has embraced the I Phone. He downloads books which he reads while patiently waiting my return to the car from a shopping expedition or if alone, sits and reads quietly in a coffee shop. Of course some of his peers might look at him strangely wondering why he is staring at his "mobile phone".
I am quite happy to have a mobile phone simply for incoming or outgoing calls of a useful nature. Certainly not for long conversations which I prefer to do on the old faithful land line at home. I do like the "net" for access of all sorts of information. I'm a politics freak so you will find me most days accessing the papers for various opinions in my endeavour to be well informed on this front. Perhaps I should leave well enough alone, because it can be quite frustrating to realise that most politicians do not have the national interest at heart or some do, until their political self interest takes over.
The new technology seems to have brought many unfavourable aspects with it. The ability of our young and naive to access that which is distasteful and obscene and one questions whether anyone should be accessing it. Somehow it seemed less accessible when in book or magazine form, but was it really? To be a parent in this age of abundant technology is to know fear of how to control this virulent pornography of the mind.
It is exciting to think though of the medical breakthroughs such as transplants and other worthy discoveries brought about by new technologies. We can only stand in awe and wonder at their limitless powers.
Hopefully the good out weighs the bad in the scheme of things, and the future looms promisingly for us all.
No comments:
Post a Comment