Completely Off Topic

Okay I was thinking today....I know a dangerous beginning to any blog entry...that technology has really slowed our world down. I know that this may sound counter intuitive, but think about for a minute...it may have made aspects of life easier, but there are a lot of things that are more difficult and convoluted.

For example, I used to have voice mail. I would go into my office, pick up my phone and see if I had any messages. At home, I would press a button and listen to the messages on my answering machine. This was way back way in 1997. Now I check my voice mail in my office, my voice mail on my phone, my email, my Facebook account, and my Twitter account. See, technology has slowed us (me) down.

Even this blog is a great example of technology making me less productive. The time I am spending writing this could be spent writing an article, preparing a lecture, reading for the next semester and so on.

Don't get me wrong, I love technology (my wife calls me her Geek and I trust that she means it lovingly!) and I love my gadgets. This is one reason why I bought the iphone. Before the iphone, I had a cell phone, GPS, mp3 player, and a radio. Now all I need is my phone. It does all of these things.

Someone needs to figure out a way for technology to make us more productive. For the love of everything, can we have one place to check our mail (voice, e, and snail), update our statuses, and communicate with those far and wide??

I'd like a computer chip installed in my brain please...but only when everyone else has one so we can all communicate and be productive without ever leaving our homes :)