I'm very impressed with technology. Obviously that is why I work with it every day. What I've seen as a trend over the past ten years is how much we as a global community want to become dependent upon it for EVERYTHING. This doesn't impress me. Five years ago I wanted technology in everything everywhere. I've more or less become a hypocrite because my stance on having technology used in everything has changed. My opinion has shifted to a level where now to automate everything is an awful choice. It has gotten to where I was beginning to resent what perverse way we as a race have used technology. To make it a crutch to distract us from living and to become a race of disconnected beings. Until now. Like anything else there is balance in this grand scheme of life. Technology has benefited us and this article (above) is a prime example. Technology warned these people and instead of having hundreds possibly thousands of dead so far there has been one reported causality. Those numbers are a far cry from what these headlines would have read twenty even forty years ago. A hundred years ago I venture to guarantee the numbers would have been in the hundreds. So technology if anything has allowed us to save lives in adverse weather conditions which in my book is worthwhile and appropriate. On the opposite side its teens texting for the sake of texting because they don't know what else to do with themselves I say is damaging to our youth. There has to be that happy balanced healthy medium out there somewhere. I pray we all find it.
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