Don't have to have a major in Psych to understand your many love/hate
hangups. Among the Freudian favportes are:
mom...dad...siblings...lover...job...and don't forget that
gorgeous-but-ridiculously-high- maintainence car.
Now in the last 20 years we've added Silicon Valley to the list.
If
you doubt this, consider the last dozen times you grumbled about all
those absurd pedestrians walking around with their faces stuck in their
handheld smartphones. Which you did while looking up from your handheld
smartphone. Lets admit it -- we love these damn gadgets, and the gang at
Silicon keeps feeding our addiction with every new edition. Talk about
planned obsolescence...!
Tom Brokaw said it well: "It's easy to
make a buck; it's a lot harder to make a difference." The wizards in
Palo Alto have made both, but have they already reached the point of
diminishing returns? Like the ingenious tobacco companies who used to
keep enhancing their addictive products and advertising, our hi-tech
gurus are not the ones to count on for taming this newest national
addiction. The wolf in the chicken yard is not your go-to solution for
all those missing chickens...!
Who then??
Not many folks
outside Amish Valley are talking about another Luddite revolt against
technology. Far too late for that for even our most poetic naturalists
who rarely trek their favorite hideaways anymore without their pack of
hardware. And it's not going to do any good to yell at your f--cking
hardware, because
recent surveys find 57% of employers said they'd be less likely to promote someone who curses.
So
lets see. What does that leave as an answer to our latest love/hate
hangup? Oh, I know. That Off button. Have you used it lately....?
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