(I typed in creative destruction into google images and this is what came back)
I've been doing much thinking lately. The world we live in is nuts! This past week I posed the question to many of my friends and family members, "How did anyone ever get anything done before the internet existed?" Things must've taken forever to get done; banking must've been slow, you had to call someone and write down directions of how to get to a location, letters took days to arrive. No doubt, the internet has revolutionized the way we live and made us all more efficient. 'Creative destruction' as we say.
But the information superhighway isn't without its caveats. Think of the ridiculous amount of personal information about you out there, just waiting to be seen. Just a month ago, some jackal rang up $300 worth of charges on my credit card. I hope you burn in hell if you're reading this. With facebook and myspace accounts, people can see where I am living, what I am doing, see pictures of me and complete strangers can gather all sorts of information about who I am. I find it quite I ironic that I chose my blog as my medium for expressing these thoughts; as a blog is a source to many strangers as to what goes on in this head of mine. Does it ever just scare you that we have become so accessible? At any given moment of time, any person can contact me and find out exactly where I am. And if I don't answer my phone for some reason, heaven forbid someone not know my whereabouts for over an hour, I have to give some explanation as to why I didn't pick up the phone.
The great thing about technology is that in the not so distant future, perhaps no crime will go unpunished. Authorities will have the ability to tap any phone, computer or gadget in order to find and prosecute criminals. However, for the time being, we have to deal with internet theives. Why the authorities can't locate them and prosecute them NOW is beyond me. In my case, Target, you know the address where the theif had his gift cards shipped. Why don't you go ahead and do something about it? I alerted you the day that the charges appeared on my account and you took 7 days to do a damn thing about it.
One day technology will pass us all, and we will be the equivalent of our grandparents and great grandparents, lost in a future of gadgets and technological languages we can hardly interpret. Technology has left many of their skills obsolete and useless in today’s society. People skills have fallen victim to “computer hacking skills.” It’s a viscous cycle that unfortunately most of us will eventually fall victim too.
