June
2008
Technology can suck, but so can life.0
Alissa’s blog entry about being “tormented by tech” rang very VERY familiar bells for me. I still remember being fourteen and drawing a digital Christmas picture for my now-boyfriend/fiancee/whatever, and in the middle of the night my computer crashed. Hours of work gone. I literally shrieked and sobbed uncontrollably, and it’s not like that never happened again. It’s amazing how technology can be reliable and utterly convenient one minute, but then destructive and untrustworthy the next. I even recently lost a file I was working on for an assessment, and that was being written on Textmate! (A supposedly pretty simple and reliable program on Macs)
However, what makes traditional technology any better? Man creates technology to help improve on things that are pulling us back. We also need to consider that technology is manmade and man isn’t perfect. I lost my file on an electronic notepad, and one might think “Hey, why didn’t you write it on a notebook instead? That’s way more reliable!”
Well, I was drawing a 30-page comic strip that was poured on by the rain. It’s not that technology is unpredictable, it’s that LIFE can be so. I think we need to consider that fact whenever our computer freezes up on us and makes us really angry as we have to pick up the pieces. I mean… haven’t we been in a situation where it was a bundle of papers being blown away in the wind instead? I have way more sob stories regarding physical destruction.
