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Jorgie
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I remember being a kid in class and the teacher asking us to draw pictures of what we think the future would be like and we'd draw aliens, people in space suits and flying saucers everywhere in the sky. Cars that would fly and could take us anywhere.
I think these prophecys had some truth to them. We were onto something us kids.
Fast forward 20 years and we are constantly surrounded by technology. We are unable to cut off from the world. Anything or Anyone we need is at the touch of our hands. We rely on these little devices for everything. Without them we are cut off from the world.
Our mobile phones are the first things we see in the morning and the last thing we see at night. These digital shiny machines follow us around everywhere, just like these flying saucers did in the pictures we use to draw.
Flying cars? Who needs them when we can see anything or be anywhere at the touch of a button. The internet is our means of travel. Why do we need to leave the house when we can have anything we want at our doorstep without having to even speak to another person.
We are the aliens. Society is breeding a culture where it is ok to alienate ourselves and live vicariously through technology rather than physically going out there and dealing with life the hard way. We can say and be whoever we want to be without having to worry about the ramifications of our actions.
What have we set ourselves up for? If we were to ask our young children or siblings to draw a picture of the future, what do they forsee? Just the thought of what divinations these kids could have scare the sh1t out of me.
I think these prophecys had some truth to them. We were onto something us kids.
Fast forward 20 years and we are constantly surrounded by technology. We are unable to cut off from the world. Anything or Anyone we need is at the touch of our hands. We rely on these little devices for everything. Without them we are cut off from the world.
Our mobile phones are the first things we see in the morning and the last thing we see at night. These digital shiny machines follow us around everywhere, just like these flying saucers did in the pictures we use to draw.
Flying cars? Who needs them when we can see anything or be anywhere at the touch of a button. The internet is our means of travel. Why do we need to leave the house when we can have anything we want at our doorstep without having to even speak to another person.
We are the aliens. Society is breeding a culture where it is ok to alienate ourselves and live vicariously through technology rather than physically going out there and dealing with life the hard way. We can say and be whoever we want to be without having to worry about the ramifications of our actions.
What have we set ourselves up for? If we were to ask our young children or siblings to draw a picture of the future, what do they forsee? Just the thought of what divinations these kids could have scare the sh1t out of me.