So, with the recent sucess of the movie The Social Network, comes also the age old question, "Are we becoming too dependant on technology"? How many of you out there remember, in the not too distant past, a time when you actually rememberd your friends' phone numbers? When there was no 'Fave Five' to put them in, and catagorize them as a face, or a name? Much like the Cartographers (map makers) of old, is personal interaction going the way of MapQuest? Punch a few qualities about a person that you'd like to have in a companion, and Viola!!!! ????
Ok, so maybe that's a little too I Robot, but you get what I'm saying here, don't you? The very same thing that is suppost to bring us closer, is actually teaching us to become more 'personally reclusive'. Now I just made up that phrase, but the best I can explain its meaning would be as follows..... Shying away from tangible human contact in order to contact humans thru mechanical means. Did Native Americans send smoke signals to each other? Yes! Did they do it while the other Chief was in the same teepee? I think not , yet how many can relate, or at least know someone that has texted you while in the same house? Yes, granted, sometimes it's a necessary evil, like if I had a booger in my nose, and you texted me to tell me at the dinner table, Great! I'm all for it, but c'mon really?!
What does anyone who reads this think? 2/7/11