I love technology, in this case computers and the Internet, as much as anyone. As an erstwhile scholar, I revel in the immediate gratification of finding bits of information so quickly. Email is a godsend. Shopping online is invaluable. I can even catch up on tv shows I have missed. I spend the better part of the day and some of the night online. My work is more gratifying than ever and there opportunities to expand what I do for the company and our members. For my son, who is autistic, the computer has provided a lease on life and potentially a career. Heck, I even met my wife online.
Nevertheless, there are a few things that do frustrate me about the technology.
1. You become completely dependent on it.
2. The latest program becomes obsolete in a trice.
3. It replaces, but cannot replace, direct human contact.
4. Laptops will never be inexpensive enough.
5. Technical problems arise and I never know how to resolve them; it I do find an expert, it take them a long time and the expense can be enormous.
I see countless opportunities in Web 2.0; by now I am conditioned to believe that the newest craze will be tomorrow's necessity. Yet I wonder if, by choice or catastrophe, I suddenly turned my back on computers and returned to the ante-bellum world of reading and phone calls (but never handwritten letters!).
But why would I want to?
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