So after a long hiatus, I am making a non-photo based post. And today I’d like to talk about how much I use technology and have gotten away from enjoying the common daily simplicity of life. For instance, a typical day (during the summer) includes: waking up, listening to my Zune on the way to and from work, get home from work listen to my Ipod Nano while at the gym lifting weights, come back and surf the Internet and look at the news and daily happenings on my desktop computer, find something to take a pictures of with my Nikon D300, watch a television show that I downloaded on my computer, then decide that I actually would like to watch a movie so I go into the living room and watch a movie on a 42 Inch HDTV with surround sound on a Sony PS3, go to bed and repeat. If you were to add up all the money that has been spent on technology in my daily life it would be well over $5,000 of (what I consider) technology that I come in contact on a daily basis. So now that I’ve defined what technology I come in contact with I’d just like to say that while not all technology is bad, some of it is not good. Every piece of technology aforementioned could argue in favor of or against depending on what you believe technology should be used for. For instance, the computer, someone of an older generation who did not grow up with computers could say that they are not needed and purely used for pleasure and entertainment. One counterpoint to this statement is, since the Internet, computers are a means of keeping up with current events, following live breaking news faster than old formats of information gathering like the newspaper or magazines. Computers can also be used to keep in touch with friends and family through communication programs like skype. But, no mater how much technology you surround yourself with, you wont be able to appreciate how much you can get out of life by just sitting and taking in the world around you. I think the times I enjoy most is when I go outside and just sit and read. I remember enjoying those time much more than when I’m sitting in front of a computer or in front of a computer screen. Something that I have not tried but, soon will, is driving to work without listening to the radio or my Zune. I think I would enjoy just being able to think clearly without the distraction of music.
