What if we had no Tech?

Well I'm using the blogspot app for ipad/iphone, which really is just a Iphone app, and needs to be updated horribly. It doesnt maximize the Ipad's capabilities, nor does it look or feel near as good as the web interface. I wonder if I should just go to the webpage and post from there in safari.

Technology... Odd that i'd choose to write about it in this light. I work in the I.T. Field. I fix computers, and work on networks, etc. However, I tend to be one of the most anti-technology people you would meet normally. I think that we have almost ruined life as we knew it. I'm not near as old as say my grandfather, who when he was young had no electricity, or indoor plumbing. However, I remember a time when we had Television, and radio, and movies, and Air Conditioning, but not cell phones, pagers, smart phones, Ipads computers, laptops, voice over IP phones.

I don't know if we can argue that we're better off now as a society with all these devices than we were without them. I think that perhaps we had more interpersonal interaction. If we wanted to talk to someone, we picked up a telephone and called them physically. there was no answering service or voicemail or even answering machines half the time. You had to be rich to have those answering machines. Or of course we'd get up and drive over to their home and visit with them in person. Because of the lack of these devices that text, or voicemail, or email people we had to see them we had to read how they responded to what we said or how we talked or looked in person, as opposed to now where we hide behind our devices, and talk to each other without ever even seeing each other. Hell half the time folks will write stuff in email or online that they would never see or say or do in person.

Is all these social networking sites really good for us? Hell is even my blog good for us? Yea it lets me get things off my chest, but i mean why not just tell people in person? Why do people stalk each other on these social sites like twitter, facebook, google plus, etc? And dont say you dont do it cause i know your lying. Every single one of us have sat there going thru a friend or a former acquaintance's photos or information looking to see what they are up to, or how their life turned out so far, etc. Humans inherently seem to be prone to gossip, and maybe thats why we do it? Just look at all the tabloids out there that folks buy about celebrities.. nothing more than gossip rags.

Another thing that we've lost is print media. Look at the magazines, the newspapers, the books even that are no longer published in paper. Those that are still there are hurting financially as their subscription base has been eroding away annually. Im as guilty as the rest of us, i read books on my ipad, i dont take the paper, i read news on the computer, be it at the newspapers site, or the large networks like foxnews or cnn or drudge, or the blaze.

That brings me to another issue, the 24 hour news cycle. I could care less about things like the Michael Jackson Doctor trial. it is not something that i have to know all about all the time. If there is not enough news to report on, DONT HAVE A 24 HOUR NEWS CYCLE. Sheesh. its not that hard. I miss the ol BREAKING NEWS and what happened to the good old anchors like walter kronkite? I'll tell you what. They're pretty much gone now. Ever since Dan Rather's false reporting because he had to keep up with creating news so he can keep the 24 hour cycle full, we've lost the truthful news reporters. Not to mention those that are Unbiased. I know, you say if your conservative like me that Fox news is Fair and Balanced. Well it tries, it really does, but its not 100% Fair nor unbiased. I miss when reporters would just report, and not give opinion. We have things like these social networks and blogs for opinions now, so how about you reports shut the hell up about what you think and simply report the damn news that I need to know. I mean yea, an earthquake is important, but Lady Ga-Ga serenading bill clinton for his birthday is the last damn thing i wanna see on my 6 oclock news report.

Is it wrong for me to long for the days gone by? Imagine a world, where the televisions have a rainbow screen and a buzz or a snow screen and buzz after 2am. Imagine no cell phones, pagers, smart phones. Imagine no laptops, no ipads, no desktops. Imagine no cable for that matter or satellite. Imagine no GPS, no ipods no walkmans or any portable music devices. For all the good that we've had with technologies, i wager we'd be better off as a society of people if we truely interacted with each other, and didnt have these devices anymore