Better Living Through Science
So I recently saw a commercial for a GPS device for your car with a map and soothing female voice feeding you directions as you drive. And I thought, Wow, that's pretty cool. You don't ever have to be lost; you can see everything around you. I wonder how long it will be before technology I marvel at becomes ordinary. I thought about cell phones and how they have become ubiquitous and universal. If someone is not reachable anywhere anytime, it is seen as a great inconvenience. Sometimes I think about what it must have been like before, when people had plans to meet, but couldn't let each other know when they were late or lost or not coming. We are evolving as a species by virtue of technology, becoming omniocular and omniaural. Is our children's generation going to look back on our parents' generation as walking the earth blind and deaf?
we still won't know where we are and we still won't stop to ask for directions...
Posted by: ron on June 28, 2006 09:51 PM