Challenge Failed, But Something Learned

In my pursuit to go twenty-four hours without technology, I find myself doing something I haven’t done in awhile, read a book for pleasure. So what to read, I wanted something thrilling, something intellectual, it took some time but I finally found it. The Zombie survival guide by Max Brooks, it has everything you need to survive the impending zombie apocalypse. So, I’ll admit it, I didn’t make it a full twenty-four hours I made it only rough two hours.

I found it nearly impossible to avoid technology for twenty-four hours, because it is everywhere. It has become a major source of information from news to movies. All in one convenient package, technology has become a ruling factor in modern society. The efficiency of using a cell phone to communicate information in a matter of seconds, compared to snail mail in writing a letter. It has increased efficiency, while creating a discontinuation of other mediums. We have become so concerned with convenience, we haven’t stop to view the negative effects. If the focus shifts to a single medium the others become irrelevant, and what we believe shifts with it. From watching the news to what celebrity news simply because we have become too lazy to get up and go outside, or read a book for god’s sake. Technology has become a great aid to society, but without filters people will blindly trust the information freely provided.

The challenge, go twenty-four hours without technology. Challenge failed, but from my failure I learned something important, the power that technology has on society. It hard to break away from it, but managing to do so creates a gap. This gap becomes a chasm due to the speed of technology, to loss connection means losing connection to the world. Technology has a hold on us, and we need to maintain that hold so we don’t lose our understanding of the modern world, while simultaneously maintaining a questioning nature.