I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the impact of technology on our lives, particularly in my recent posts “On Blogging” Parts 1 and 2. I’m no Luddite, but I definitely know that I could stand to spend a whole lot less time on my computer and online. I realized the other day that I read much more on the web than I do from books, and I don’t think that that’s a good thing.
So, go read 20 Days Without a PC. Here’s an excerpt of his conclusions:
In a thousand subtle ways, technology accelerates the pace of life. That’s not an unalloyed virtue. Spend an afternoon away from your in-box, and folks wonder if you’ve dropped off the face of the earth. You produce more work and consume more entertainment and information because…well, because you can.
Gee, Matt, I’d love to read it, but I can’t. There doesn’t seem to be any way for me to get there from here. Now if only there was some convenient way of going from one web page to another, a sort of ‘link’ that allowed to travel this world wide web…
doh! Somehow I forgot to actually make the stupid link… :/
Great info, thanks very much!