03-19-2012, 06:35 AM
Technology has a time and a place.
My wife and I have a cell phone each that we use constantly to call each other. When we go shopping and go to 2 different aisles to get something, we're always one call away to meeting back up. It's a tool for convenience. We'll text each other when we need to just leave a message or if we're meeting up somewhere after work, we can just text the address where we are going to meet. I have some games on my phone (I'm addicted to the game Risk) for when I have a spare moment and don't have the time, desire, or ability to read something, but that's the extent that I go toward using my phone.
I phones are also on the way to running our model railroads as dcc controls., maybe soon waybills.
When I see lines of people camped outside a store while waiting for the latest technology, I have to shake my head. I would rather spend the night sleeping in my bed and buy something a month or 2 later after all of the bugs have been worked out. Newest doesn't always mean the best.
To be able to read books and magazines on an iPad that weighs less than the magazine can be beneficial. Technology does have a place in making our lives easier. It's just a matter of sorting out the useful from the frivolous. If the technology is useful to you, by all means, get it. It's when people have a Tim Taylor personality that it can get out of control.
By the way, when people buy the applications to go with their smart phone, the apps don't always transfer to the new phone/computer.
My wife and I have a cell phone each that we use constantly to call each other. When we go shopping and go to 2 different aisles to get something, we're always one call away to meeting back up. It's a tool for convenience. We'll text each other when we need to just leave a message or if we're meeting up somewhere after work, we can just text the address where we are going to meet. I have some games on my phone (I'm addicted to the game Risk) for when I have a spare moment and don't have the time, desire, or ability to read something, but that's the extent that I go toward using my phone.
I phones are also on the way to running our model railroads as dcc controls., maybe soon waybills.
When I see lines of people camped outside a store while waiting for the latest technology, I have to shake my head. I would rather spend the night sleeping in my bed and buy something a month or 2 later after all of the bugs have been worked out. Newest doesn't always mean the best.
To be able to read books and magazines on an iPad that weighs less than the magazine can be beneficial. Technology does have a place in making our lives easier. It's just a matter of sorting out the useful from the frivolous. If the technology is useful to you, by all means, get it. It's when people have a Tim Taylor personality that it can get out of control.
By the way, when people buy the applications to go with their smart phone, the apps don't always transfer to the new phone/computer.
Mike Kieran
Port Able Lines
" If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be " - Yogi Berra.
Port Able Lines
" If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be " - Yogi Berra.