Phone failure
This past week technology began to fail me. My phone, among other things, stopped working in the way it was designed. What I mean is that it would still make calls and text, but the touch-screen wouldn’t work. That made making each and every call a time-consuming task. Also, the screen would never go to sleep, forcing me to be tethered to the wall to keep a charge. Needless to say, this was all very inconvenient. It negated any benefit of the mobile phone.
To put the mobile back into my mobile phone, I decided to switch my phone number over to an old phone. It wasn’t as stylish, or intuitive, but at least it held a charge so texts and calls could be made easily. I switched over the number and it worked. Except that the phone would only text. even tried to switch over to another old phone, which resulted in the same problem. Frustrated, I tried to switch everything back to the original broken phone, but now the number wouldn’t even reprogram.
This whole experience made it obvious that I, and probably the general public, have become dangerously dependent on cell phones and technology in general. I felt disconnected from the world without the ability to call someone whenever I want. couldn’t imagine that there was a time when I didn’t even own a cell phone, even though I didn’t even get one until I started driving at 16.
Is our dependence on technology good or bad? In a way, it allows us to communicate with each other and stay connected in ways we could not have before. But, when we rely on technology, we lose other means of communicating. Our social lives now can extend beyond where they use to. So finally, I would say that technology, as any addiction, becomes bad when it interferes with other parts of our life.
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