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Rejecting Technology By: Jonathan Bille  |
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 There is a new trend that is starting to make some waves. No it’s not a new iPod, mobile phone or hand held computer; in fact it’s quite the opposite. The new trend in technology is an effort by many individuals to start eliminating technology from their lives. Can’t be true you say? Well it is and it’s happening more often than you would guess.
Technology is seductive. It sweet talks us and draws us in with promises of making life easier; making us more productive and making us look sexy and in touch with what is going on now.
But there is another school of though that says that the seductiveness of technology is an illusion and rather than making life easier, it is in fact, making life harder and far more complex than it needs to be.
I had the opportunity to speak with a gentleman named Tim who is one of the new anti-technology individuals and this is what he had to say about the technology he’s rejected and why.
“I used to be really into computers and technological stuff. It was like Star Trek or something, just push a button and you have what you’re looking for. Well, it never seemed to go that way and it wasn’t long before I stated to realize that technology wasn’t living up to the promises it had made.
I’m a little older and I can remember when computers were first introduced into the office environment. It’s going to be a paperless office, we were told, and the computers are going to help you do your work. Well nothing could have been further from the truth. Rather than a paperless office, we started to produce more paper than ever, and rather than computers helping us do our work, the exact opposite became true, we were assisting computers with their work.”
And that’s only the beginning. I have talked to others who have given up their PDAs for a date book and a pad of paper, and those who have given up their cell phones claiming it was the most liberating thing they have ever done in their life.
Now, it’s no doubt that technology is here to stay, but at the same time, it seems certain that there will be a segment of the population that will fight and reject new technology when ever possible. It’s not exactly living like the Amish, but its’ understandable. In fact, this whole thing has me thinking about what technology I can do without. More than I would have first guessed, that’s for sure.
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