Technology enhances our lives every day, allowing us to do things faster (or at all) than without. This causes a sort of dependence over time, though, which can be humorous when it’s not you it’s happening to. Watch how fast someone would get upset if their car radio stopped working or they forgot their cell phone, or their laptop suddenly wouldn’t turn on.
You can leave your house dressed sharply, feeling like you’re the man with your fancy phone that does GPS and all your other little “life enhancing gadgets”. That is until you’re in the middle of a part of town you don’t know at all and there’s a malfunction. Funny how fast the smug grin leaves your face when you look at the clock and watch minutes fall away as your appointment gets closer, shitty GPS still not sorting it out. You’re in traffic so of course you can’t Google the address or try to just use maps without causing an accident.
Wait! I’ll use my phone as…a phone. I’ll call people and ask for directions. Fail—no one answers. They must be prepping the meeting for everyone else without me.
We walk a very fine line, finer than we’d probably like to admit, between order and chaos in our day. So much of that is determined by the things we rely on and take for granted, like a phone that might suddenly glitch, a wristwatch that we expect to keep accurate time, a pocket knife we expect to open promptly every time, or even a car that we expect will start every morning. Depending on circumstance any one of these things failing us can be a train wreck for the rest of the day.
Kind of makes you think…if a nationwide power failure happened what sort of clusterfuck would we all be in?
LOL! You are so right, we would we be if a nationwide power outage happened? Everyone would go crazy that for sure!
Great article Brian!
Love ya,
Mom Winters