Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Technology Making us strangers

Can we continue to become connected on the internet without losing our connections to each other. They would like us to think that we become more connected to each other with instant communication. This is great but we cannot get that human experience online. There is a huge problem when people have to rely on the internet for dating, friends, work, hobbies, and their lives. If we get so used to being online we will lose that time that we could be outside. If we have to work online do we ever get that human touch to our work. If all our hobbies are online do we ever want to leave. All our friends and family will have to be connected by the internet will we have any more real relationships or love. If we get a date online can we ever fall in love with the real person. If we do all these things online when do we live our real lives. Do we lose our own identity? Do we lose the human touch? Can we no longer be human any longer if everything in our lives is digital copy? A digital copy is compressed and not real. These are very scary realities that we can fall into over time. We would not fall into it if we were not conditioned to in our lives to except technology to be more important than real life. The digital world is becoming more interactive and real but it will never have that human touch to it. I wonder if we will stop ourselves before it is too late? We have a perfect world out there and all around us but we are not satisfied with it because we did not create it. Can't we get back to the beauty of the world and nature without losing our comforts that technology has given us?

1 comment:

Knight of da plume said...

That is so true..but people already have virtual lives! I have come across so many people who literally spend all their time on the computer leading false lives. To them, it might be a platform to be who they really are, but they don't realize how much they're missing out on the real world. It's a sad situation out there, the only thing we can do is encourage our friends and children not to do it, by accepting them as they are!