This I do believe: technology is ruining our lives

Remember when you wanted to call someone but you were out on the town, so you used a payphone? Remember when you flipped a vinyl record to hear the B side? Remember when you picked up a print newspaper? Remember when you didn't carry a cell phone everywhere you went—even to bed? Remember when our president of the United States was usually only heard from on the radio or the television instead of every five minutes on twitter? Well...I don't.

I am truly peeved that I have been cheated out of a life that lacked cell phones and the internet. Modern technology is ruling our lives and possibly ruining them. Yes, I realize I'm saying this as I stare into the blaring light of an iMac but such is life. Do you really think anyone would read this if I typed it up on my typewriter and sent it in the mail to my local newspaper? Okay maybe they would publish it, but it would still be posted online, shared on twitter, what have you.

I'll cut to the chase here, clean air and simpler times have passed folks. We are now living in the era of invasive text messaging, just waiting on artificial intelligence to take over our jobs and then our lives. Looks like uncle John didn't text back, it's been a whole five minutes, he's probably dead. Okay, maybe thats's a bit dramatic but it's how I feel sometimes. Don't get me wrong, I'll never part with my iphone, I just wish it didn't exist.