technologicccc

This video kind of put things into perspective for me. I never really thought about things this way until I watched this clip. My favourite part of this clip was the part about airplanes. I have been on an airplane 4 times in my life but I can only remember 2 of them. I remember being pretty frustrated because we did wait for about 40 minutes and my head was really hurting when we were landing on the way home from Florida. I found what Louis C. K. had to say really funny but it had a lot of truth to it. We take technology, for granted. Airplanes was a great example because it did not even occur to me that an airplane was a form of technology.
I think it would be extremely hard for me to live my life without technology. I do almost all of my homework on my laptop, I listen to my iPod several times each day and if for some reason my laptop isn't working or I'm "too lazy" to turn it on I go on Facebook on my iPod. I text people on my cell phone all day long and I'm always calling people. I think I do this because I don't like feeling alone. I always want to be in touch with someone, even if it's just my mom, just because I'm used to always being connected to people in one way or another. Usually I do not watch much television but when I want to I get really upset if I can't because when I'm in the mood to do something, I really want to do it. That's why when the power goes out in my house, it's probably the worst thing that could happen to us. If we wanted to call for a pizza we would have to use the phone in the kitchen (it's not cordless, and it has terrible reception) and everyone just ends up all frustrated because my dad yells at us because he can't hear a thing that the guy is saying on the other end of the phone. Good thing we don't have those phones from the stone age that Louis C. K. was talking about, because I love Pizza Nova.
Anyways back to the point, I think it was easier for people to live without technology before because they were not accustomed to it in the first place. They did not have easy access to all the things that we do. In a sense, I think this generation has a bit too much, and many children are growing up not being thankful for what they have, not realizing that their parents grew up with less than half the things they take for granted now.
Now, on the topic of new technology, I'm not very creative so I can't exactly think of something like this on the spot but this week I was thinking about something new. I thought that it would be pretty cool if my graphing calculator could play the radio... or maybe (I just thought of this now) my iPod touch could have a graphing calculator application! That'd be pretty cool. Anyways, while I was thinking aloud about this cool calculator my friend told me that her graphing calculator actually has an address book and a calender.. I'm not sure why you would want those things on a calculator but okaaay...

Anyways, I guess thats all for now! Only one blog left!! :)