Too Much Technology Takes its Toll

I had a friend one time who programmed his apartment into a high-tech haven. His favorite music would play automatically, when he arrived home from work, and with the proper mood lighting of course. His coffee would be ready in the morning, at the precise time that he reached the kitchen and wanted a cup. And before she became a Google operating system, his 'android' housemaid would fix his tie on the way out, and kiss him goodbye, too.

The couple in this video has the same idea as my friend. They each want the new shower technology to operate with their individual preferences.

Well, you can’t exactly blame the installation guy for testing his work, belting out an opera, and enjoying how cool this shower is. “That should do it. Enjoy your new shower.” Drip, drip.

Don’t you just hate it, when your day is starting out good and then you get stuck on an escalator?

I mean, they really should improve escalator technology and safety. It must’ve been very early in the morning, as there was no one in the building yet. For all we know they could’ve slid into a panic mode for being stuck, and who knows what they would’ve resorted to, while in this state? “Would somebody please do something? Hhhelp!” 

Sometimes the pace of technology is way too fast, and we can hardly keep up, can we?

Time to slow down the ‘tech train,’ get off of it and get our bearing back, then hop back on board!

Remember when the future was literally bristling in our hands, and we could trade stocks at the park on our snappy portable telephone?

I mean, how cool was that! How awesome, too, to play a super-sophisticated electronic hockey game on TV. Life was never more convenient and enjoyable, was it.

Finally, I remember having an old mobile and writing a text message. I had to tap a particular key once, twice or three times, in order to get the right letter for the words in my message. No lie. You had a mobile like that, didn’t you? Well, fret no more. Here is the future of smart messaging technology in the way that Nokia, Samsung or Motorola can’t imitate. Its next generation devices are so nano, they’re practically subatomic!

Is technology sometimes too much? I say, no, we can never have enough of it!

Thank you for reading, and let me know what you think!

Ron Villejo, PhD