Don't Forget to Rewind the VHS!

Technology has become such a large part of our everyday life that it doesn’t even faze us anymore when we use it. We think little of google-ing something or texting our friends or listening to music on our ipod. It’s become a way of life, almost as simple as breathing. Before we know it cars will be flying and cell phones will do everything except making phone calls.

Technology is evolving daily. Every day we hear of cars made of sea weed or cell phones thinner than credit cards. Technology will soon replace humans and we’ll be just as obsolete as the VHS. Especially in this economic downturn the last thing we need to be doing is giving jobs to machines. I think this video brings up the excellent point that no one pays any attention to the awesome innovations occurring around us and everyone feels as if they are entitled to this technology. In reality we are lucky to have access to these things such as cell phones and even airplanes. We think that it impossible to live without these things, while truthfully they did not so long ago. Talking to my parents I realized they grew up in the time with typewriters and brick cell phones. They had no idea and couldn’t even fathom the technology that is an ipod or a GPS. Today I couldn’t imagine life without my computer (especially Facebook) or not having the luxury of texting my friends to see where they are going period 2. Thinking about it if I woke up tomorrow and didn’t have access to all the technology I do today, I don’t know how I would survive!

Its sad to see we have become so dependant on technology and can’t leave the house without our cell phone or ipod. They are a way of life, a fad of sorts that I don’t see disappearing anytime soon. If anything it will only get bigger. The days of floppy disks and walkmans are behind us, to the new more convenient era. Now if you don’t mind I need to go charge my cell phone.

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