I look around and see the technology and wonder?........Where is the personal touch? We text, and email, and IM, and blog, and it goes on and on. When do we sit down and talk, sip a cup of coffee over a laugh, read a book together next to an open fire? Where is the one on one connection we get from eye contact, a touch of the hand, a kiss on the cheek. We have lost this idea, and replaced it with satelite messages, LOL, applications at the touch of a finger, basically mans greatest inventions to impersonality.
I totally agree with you. No one slows down anymore and social skills are quickly going to be lost in 'cyperspace'! I will always be someone who prefers ink-stained fingers from reading an actual newspaper in a cafe surrounded by other human beings than crouching over my laptop at home, alone, to get news updates.
ReplyDeleteThe creep (or maybe dash) forward of communication technology is a bit scary. Even when we communicate over distances, we're not likely to write out letters produced by reflection and forethought. Ideas are zapped cross-country or internationally half a dozen syllables at a time (for those of use who still use whole words.)
ReplyDeleteI admit that I'm quick to pull up a browser when I want to look something up, and I'm ever more impatient to find out the answers to every trivial question I consider. Still, I wonder how (or if) we'll figure out how to integrate instantaneous communication with the real meetings between people throughout every day.