Technology is an amazing and baffling thing for me. It is such a part of life’s fabric now that I often say, the end of the world will be when the invisible reach of the internet vanishes…

I’m old enough to remember the days before the internet.  When people had to think through things, not Google them. When we spent time socializing  not texting with emoji’s to infer emotion that can not be read by technology.  The art of conversations and sharing the words outloud, feeling the emotions as people speak… this is the greatest loss that comes with technology. At least as I see it.

The web of lies that the internet can spin reminds me of a game we played in Girl Scout camp. We would sit in a circle and whisper from one to another a short storyline…. at the end of the circle the last person would them recite the storyline outloud. It was never the same. It had been shaped by free thought, and the journey from one ear to another… life seems like that now. So much untruth, so much confusion. There can be such a thing as too much sharing. Too much information haphazardly shared can hurt, can change the course of things, the heart of things, and people are not always honest or able to distinguish what is real. I suppose the social media, the texting and the way no matter where people are they are not present but connected by technology is what I feel has been the most expensive and expansive cost of technology.  Human connection lost all too often to the degree we are living in a dystopian world.  Adrift rather than connected…