When a society logs behind technology we call that technological lag, and that's exactly what the U.S. and other countries are dealing with these days. We've lived through a age of great technological advancement, and we're just not smart enough to know what to do with it. All these modern conveniences of advanced technology are in fact killing us. I can start off the the car, that mode of transportation that gets us around town or takes us on trips. It's more than we can handle, and it's not like we haven't had it around for a while. You'd think a century of dealing with cars would have taught us to use it properly, but we're still catching up. I blame that partly on technological advancement in the industry. It's not enough to have a vehicle that will take us where we need to go; it's all about the gadgetry these days. I own one of those advanced machines and have developed a love/hate relationship with it. For one thing, I don't want a vehicle that talks to me, especially when it gives me orders. I'm not a gadgetry person. Gadgets have robbed us of our ability to reason out how to get things done. We don't have to do that now because the gadget does it. They should rename the cell phone a "brain in the pocket."
Here's a good one, the social media gadgetry. So, I got stupid and had a Facebook account for about six months. I disabled it not long ago, and now I'm getting calls because some scam artist cloned me and is using my pic and profile to scam people . . . and, I can't do shit about it. I can't get back on that account, but still some hacker was able to steal my identity. Ever try getting Facebook to stop this? Forget it, they have no ears or eyes for your complaints, which makes them the real scam artist. It's my fault because I should've known better.
Few people have learned to use the new technology without it somehow corrupting them. So, Facebook has been ruined by scam artists, and Twitter is obviously for twits. Electronic gadgets stole away much of our privacy, and we gave it up willingly. Technology has turned you into a number, and the individual has been lost. We no longer have real store clerks, just button pushers who're told what to do by the gadgets the work with. School teachers and professors are being replaced by technology. We've even had a presidential election decided on the misuse of gadgetry - emails, texts, calls, and those infernal voting machines that can be hacked. Are you starting to feel stupid now? You should, but you probably don't because the gadget hasn't given you permission yet. So, go ahead and fiddle with your brain in the pocket thingie. Look up technological lag, or check out the facts about a dumbed down public. You can do it, so come on and look it up . . . and then we'll see if you can figure it out.
The next time someone asks you for your number, regardless of what number they want, just say, "Zero." You'll get a dumb look, and, "No, the real number." And you can say, "That is my real number because that's what you've reduced me to." I paid my car payment this month using the telephone, never talked to a real person, just punched in numbers when an electronically produced voice ask for it. Slick operation, got it done quickly, and easily . . . and I felt stupid for the rest of the day. And, I felt a little sad that a bunch of numbers own my car instead of me.
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