My favorite bit of technology, let's see, cell phones? Allow you to keep in touch with every inane update possible? (like, I kid you not, "I'm walking down the hill toward my car. I'll be there in a minute or 2") How about Skype? Gosh, lets you talk to people all over the world, just like - wait a minute, long distance phone calls! How about Flickr? Wow, you can inflict 146 photos of your family Christmas on the entire world! How about Facebook? beats picking up a phone, you can keep in touch with your step-brother's step-son's girlfriend whom you've never met! Gosh, I love it all!
Seriously, I do love the internet. I use it on a daily basis to keep in touch with distant family, do research, find patterns and diy info, pursue obscure interests - just today I used it to settle that not all ginger cats are toms. Fancy that. But we are in danger of allowing it to become more than just a tool to use when necessary. It isn't, and shouldn't be, a way of life. We might be taking the whole thing too seriously.
So, my favourite bit of technology? The little machine that allows diabetics to track and store their blood sugar levels in seconds and as needed - now that's technology.
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