We’re not robots

…inside a grid.

 

[Science vs. Romance]

 

Movies about robots taking over the world always freak me out. It’s scary that technology could become so advanced (says the girl who is constantly connected through every possible form of technology and always excited about anything new).

 

Mervin suggested that I write about robots taking over the world. After giving it some thought I realized that in a sense they are. Not robots technically, but google controls my life. It is my personal assistant; it might as well be my boyfriend. Most of my waking hours are spent on my laptop. Without electricity, work becomes impossible, our lives become seemingly useless.

 

The scene: As you are sitting at your desk you reach to turn on your computer. At the same time your cell phone starts vibrating on the table spilling your filled to the top cup of coffee. You grab your phone, ignoring the spill you quickly respond to a text and then turn back to your computer. You’re logged on and have 26 unread emails, 674 unread blogs in your google reader and 5 people instantly IM you because AIM automatically starts up when you log on. You tell twitter what you are doing and then continue to stay logged on for 9 hours wasting most of the day occupied with the demands of your computer.

 

Story of my life.

 

I spend 9 hours a day at work logged onto my computer and then when I get home from work I turn on my laptop and waste my evenings answering emails and chatting on AIM. All the gaps in between work and home, I am texting. My little red blackberry never shuts up. My ipod has a name (Ruby) and I feel very lost when I leave her at home. I have myspace, facebook, last.fm, flickr, good reads, twitter and 20something bloggers accounts and update all of them frequently.

 

Face to face interaction is slowly becoming lost. People are losing their social skills. In my office people tend to send emails rather than walking two feet to the persons office to ask a quick question. It’s a bit ridiculous. My boss sometimes sends me emails saying, “Stop by my office.” Uh, you could have called me if you really had no desire to get up.

 

I think the internet and I need to take a little break. I doubt that will happen though, I’m addicted. It’s alright for now, but eventually, technology will take over the world.

 

Just remember, although online dating is all the rage, you can’t text message break up. If you get to that point, then you really have a problem.

 

(Listening to ‘The Execution of all things’ by Rilo Kiley)

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