Technology eats as much
time as it saves. As our servant, it meets our needs with
ever-growing efficiency. Food, transportation, communication, and
security are all enhanced. As our master, it creates needs we didn't
previously know existed. Who needed an iPod before there was one?
We are given an increased capacity to produce and consume, so the
world expects us to produce and consume more. If merely producing or
consuming more is our objective, then we are achieving it. But
wouldn't you say that there is a little more to life?
That's an interesting point. I certainly do waste a lot of time on the internet. Then again, who knows whether I'd just find some other way to waste it if I didn't have the internet?
ReplyDeleteAnd you bring up another interesting point. The presence of technology doesn't determine your activities. It merely allows you to do more easily what you want.
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