Rants About Tech

Technology and software development and even mobile applications have improved our lives in the past several years but this is not a one sided coin. The speed of the Internet has led the youngest generation to expect that everything is immediate. Do you remember those days when you had to sit there waiting patiently for a couple minutes to actually get online and then for the page to load? Now we expect a drone to deliver what we ordered two hours ago. Just as we get used to our new cellphone, we're being told that it's time to upgrade to the newer model, which is bigger, faster, has more memory and does more tricks. This means that everything has a relatively short shelf life and upgrades are needed constantly. Also, as great as internet phones services are, there is a point where we lose that human interaction. Instead of actually being with each other, we whip out our phones and stare at the screen while sitting next to each other. When was the last time you actually looked into someone's eyes while talking with them?