My husband and I often see on Facebook how some of our friends apply the latest technology in their daily lives. PDA is out. BlackBerry is the newest trend. Though it may cost hundreds of dollars, they would pay whatever price it demands to get a step ahead of everyone else or simply to keep up with the trend. Besides, why opt for a slower, more inconvenient way of working and communicating while you can afford a better, faster, and more efficient gadget?
As it is, some of our executive and professional friends purchase this latest high-techno gear – either by saving cash or using credit cards. They seem to enjoy it.
“Do you want it, too?” Octavian asked.
I laughed. “I’ll want it when I need it.”
One of the things my spouse and I have in common is that we don’t find it amusing to be trapped into the latest trend. We purchase something when it’s necessary to buy – not when the world around us falls into a trend fever.
In this fast-moving technology and information era, eventually people will fall into two categories: the trendsetter and the trend-victim. The first consists of highly innovative individuals who always use the best of their abilities and talents to create or discover a better way of living. The second, as we may guess, are people who simply follow and apply whatever the previous class is launching into the global market.
Sadly, the majority of us belong to the second class. We don’t use our brain. We use our wallet. In the end, we suddenly realize that our mind has turned rusty and we want to solve everything with a push of the button. We become more attached to microchips and not to relationships. We don’t find vis-à-vis communication important anymore.
We turn into a mechanical-organism, not a living human being.
It’s not to discredit the latest technology, though. BlackBerry is necessary – especially for highly mobile professionals and executives who put “updating news and information” somewhere around the top of their lists.
The underlining question is: does applying technology prevents us to become the human we should be?
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