Technoslave

Sitting in Borders just before lunch, I reached for the most recent edition of Adbusters. This is a journal that always has provocative words, pictures and thoughts. I first started reading Adbusters several years ago and have found it to be a scintillating window through which you can get a view of global postmodern thought.

I have never met Eric Slate.

He tells an interesting story that captured my attention. He says, "Once while I was riding on a crowded bus, the man sitting next to me threw his cell phone out the window. When his phone rang, instead of dutifully answering it, he casually tossed it away. I was stunned."

Slate goes on to describe the event...."He looked at me, shrugged and looked away. I had no idea if it was his, if it was stolen or even if he knew what a cell phone was. But in one seemingly careless motion, he managed to liberate himself from something that has completely consumed me."

Recently I watched the episode of Seinfeld in which Elaine is in a limo and the person she is with throws her electronic daily planner out the window. It causes her to panic when she realizes that without it she is lost.

I don't have the courage to throw my cell phone out the window, although there have been times when I have been tempted.

Technology which is suppose to simplify our lives has made it more complex.

I read today that "technology dependence" is now classified as a major health problem. The author says it is in "the same category as alcoholism, gambling and drug addiction."

Say what?

It may very well be that the more connected we are the more distant we have become.

Celente put it this way, "human beings are being trapped in a high-tech cycle that is freezing their minds away from living in the moment, looking at life and taking in what's around them."

Hey...I gotta run, I am getting a text message.