A Blessing + A Devil's Costume

"Let's update"

Technology. It's a blessing disguised in a devil's costume, we love it but it tries everything it can to make us hate it, that is its goal. Yesterday, I was going to watch the BYU football game on my favorite t.v. Yet, for some reason that I don't understand, the t.v. would NOT turn on. I sat there trying forever to get it to work, and, alas, it stayed put. It would not budge from is consistant sleep, a coma if you will.

While we sat there puzzled by why it had decided not to work that day, we came to a wonderful idea, the technology we have for that t.v. is 8 years old, how long we have lived in this house. So of course it was going to be breaking down on us like mad. Technology with the wonderful shortcuts it has given us in everyday life, is, at the same time, less dependable... it dies--constatly.

The world has been giving us new technology right and left and you are constantly having to update it. You have to be changing it all the time, a better computer so it can fit all the 1000's of programs that we "need," or even so the computer can work all 1000 of those programs. Another thing, that bugs about technology, is that even if what you have works perfectly fine, you need to have the best, the new "technological selection" (getting rid of Natural Selection). The new PS3, how many people waited to buy that thing, how many people were counting down the days until they could have it? Yea, it is better, loads better, than the PS2 but... the extra gadgets that it comes with most of us already have.

Look, technology is great, but it seems to have made us a little too high maintenance--the constant change, either to work with everything/one else, and attached to it as babies are to umbilical cords. Maybe we should take a step back, and make sure the reason we're getting technology are for beneficial reasons, but that's me.