Technology Overload

Yes it has been a long time since I have sat down and taken the proverbial pen to paper. The idea and desire to return to this has been in the back of my mind for a while and now an item has appeared that I feel requires me to raise awareness at the overall absurdity of it.

Please allow me to confess a few things first so you don’t think that I am on a soap box. I love the technology of today; I barely ever leave the room without my Blackberry, there is always a computer that is logged onto the internet within a few feet of me and I have not used a road map in the last four years. However, a recent purchase made me fully aware of a trend in our world and I feel that this purchase has taken it too far.

Earlier today I went out and purchased the new Playboy magazine with the 3D centerfold and glasses. The fact that 3D movies and televisions are all the rage, some things should remain sacred and one of those is Hef’s centerfolds. I really didn’t want to look at a picture of a beautiful woman with stupid paper glasses on my face; glasses that remove all color and warmth from the photo. Without those glasses she looks like I have spent a long night with my old friend McChuggin in a fairly successful attempt to consume all of the alcohol on the face of the earth.

As I have not really made a point yet I will attempt to do so now. We don’t really need everything that is out there. Now while you are reading (if anyone actually reads this) this on Facebook or at least somewhere on the internet there was a time when an idea (or rant) like this was actually published by men who took little pieces of steels and arranged them in a way that mimicked the handwritten word. The art of printing took the ideas of the meek, the immodest, the famous or the infamous and gave them to the world. And one fact is still true; it worked. Common Sense was put out to the world this way and the effects are still ever present in our lives. The technology that we love and enjoy is bordering on becoming too much of a good thing, let’s take a step back and enjoy some of the old ways of doing things. Then take a picture of it and post it on the web.