Technology: A love/hate relationship

I hate technology! Wait, I love technology. I can't live without it.

On Monday night our power went out at home. It was about 5pm, and I can honestly say I was lost. I didn't know what to do. We couldn't cook dinner, we couldn't go to our nearby gym, couldn't use the internet, couldn't do anything. I read a book until we fell asleep and napped for two hours. It was a little bit depressing.

And then there is the wireless issues we've been having at school all week. I lost at least a half-hour this afternoon trying to log-on to write this blog post. That's valuable, productive time that I could have spent on checking out new photos on Facebook. I'll never get that time back.

In all honesty, my impotence in the two situations above is starting to freak me out a little. In both situations I felt powerless, kind of like a zombie who had no control of his actions. Technology is certainly a wonderful thing. It can bring people together from across the world in seconds and facilitate the rapid exchange of information and ideas. But it also enslaves us. The more and more we change our lives to rely entirely on technology for survival, the more precarious our situation. The more distance we put between ourselves and the basics of life, the scarier modern society becomes.

I didn't think I was going here when I started writing. Oh well.