I'm with Kit: I love technology.
Every once in awhile I get a little extra in love with how technology's progressed. (This week's fascination is Twitter.) Sometimes I have to marvel at the way technology changes my interactions. For example:
(Almost) Twenty years ago: Me sitting on a stool at the kitchen counter dialing into Prodigy and playing riveting logic games on my dad's laptop that would have crushed my skinny legs had I actually tried set it on my lap.
Ten years ago: Me sequestered in my home office, listening to Collective Soul illegally downloaded from Napster, chatting with friends on ICQ (I had a seven-digit number starting with 1, by the way), marveling at cool tricks with java scripts, and literally dreaming up ways I could get my own "be right back" segment on ZD(tech)TV.
Presently: Still sitting at home, but enjoying my most socially-connected isolation yet, using Facebook, Twitter, Skype, text messaging, blogs, etc. to keep up with the life and times of friends new and old.
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Another example, bill pay? Who needs stamps these days?
It's amazing how technology has changed every facet of our lives--travel on jet planes, drive reliable cars, eat fresh food almost anywhere, work in air-conditoned buildings. Out-patient surgery in the morning, play your favorite DVD from the couch that afternoon. The list goes on.
Now, if I could only do something about that clock on the wall that goes tick, tick, tick....
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