I think...
Sometimes I think this instant access to the Net...is such a relief for most people...it absolutely relieves one of the responsibility of thinking...
You need to remember some fact.type it into Google, and the plethora of options roll out in front of you....quickly scan, and click. You don’t need your memory anymore to remember facts, you just need access to a search engine.
That again keeps you busy for a while, by enabling you to view some more reading material, which then link to other sites, and then by the time you know it, you forget what you had started looking for in the first place. Leave alone what you were trying to think.
Sometimes, I wonder what work would be like, if someone pulled away the laptop and left me with a piece of paper and pen, and said 'Now work'.
On the emotional front, you don’t need to feel anything, anymore….If you are feeling blue…..or red, or green, just type that into in your search bar, and a hundred links open up with people who talk about going through the same thing…so instead of sorting out your mind and heart, about what you’re really going through, or what is to be done about it, you just park the need to do anything, by continuing to surf….Click away on those links containing words that resonate the most with your thoughts and feel completely validated…
And then you have twitter and the entire club of social networking, where people choose to keep updating their status message. It almost seems funny to me…that people are busy updating their status messages in real time, all the time…that they are not really living the moment at all….almost like the kind of people who go out on holidays and are so busy capturing every moment in their cameras. They do that for either showing off to others or for their own future viewing pleasure. But in the process, lose out on the present - that absolute moment you actually stood out there, on that rocky river bed with the river roaring past, or on the gorgeous mountain top looking at the dawn, or hearing the gurgling stream and feeling the pebbles beneath your toes or just snuggling with a cup of coffee on that cool morning, with the lush, cool greenery outside and a bird singing in the morning quiet….
In all the scenes I mentioned above, there is no way that complete experience would have remained with me for life, if I had been busy only photographing it to upload on facebook, or busy twittering my status…Being present...I think... is completely absent in this superconnected-to-the-Net world.
