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T – ‘TECHNO SLAVES’
I see people everywhere but not interacting with each other but
heads down focused on their phones. Then, I turn to Twitter and post
my snarky comment about how sad it is. With everyone doing the
same, I have done it too. Our phones are constantly buzzing. The
notification icon has saturated our lives – it’s on our laptops, on our
phones – begging us to pay attention; begging us to drop everything
and find out what it could possibly be. Unintentionally, technology
has become our closest friend, the person we will do anything for,
drop anything for, even break away from an important conversation
to be with.
Without technology and our mobile phones in particular, we feel
naked, stripped and alone. Vacations now include a laptop. What’s a
trip without photos that we immediately upload to Facebook and
Instagram? It’s like it didn’t happen, at least if we don’t share them in
real-time. Are we really that lonely, sad and desperate for attention?
I have seen families who can’t put down their phones at dinner. Ads
mock the breakup text, but we all know someone who has been on
the receiving end. Work is only an email away, making time off and
vacations a distant reality. Phones buzz; emails alert; but we’re never
satisfied with what we get. We’re all techno slaves. One machine can
do the work of fifty ordinary Man. No machine can do the work of
extra ordinary Man.
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