Laptop Life
How did we ever live without computers? I use mine every day and depend on it. It’s hard to imagine life without one, although I do remember not so many years ago when computers were unheard of and we did just fine…or so we thought. For sure the computer age has brought about many great and wonderful things: increased productivity, a higher standard of living, an ability to shop, research and communicate quicker, faster and more efficiently with others throughout the world, as well as many more marvelous things. These are wonderful things all right, but what have computers done to the communication with friends and family?
We can sit for hours staring intently at our laptops totally engrossed in the world we view there as we surf along the world wide web virtually ignoring those around us in the same room. In my own family I am often amused as I notice all of us enjoying a nice quiet day at home while everyone sits with their computer on their lap engrossed in their own private thoughts and whatever is on the screen. We used to interact…talk, laugh, play games, eat together, exercise, even fight…something! We used to invite friends over for an evening to eat, have some conversation, games and fun. Now we just stare at our laptops as if in some sort of trance. Once in a while we might make a comment on something we are reading, laugh at an email, squawk about some politician, but mostly we sit quietly, our thoughts totally within ourselves.
So when someone says computers have increased communication, they aren’t talking about communication within the walls of the home and with the family. It’s pathetic. And yet not pathetic enough that I want to give up my laptop….yet
