Technology Doesn't Make You Look Weird

Technology has improved incredibly over the past decades and never ceases to become innovative in new ways. It governs actions and dominates decisions. For instance, most people never do math in their heads any more. They shuffle for their phones and "touch" the magic square called an "app" with a calculator graphic pictured on it. These types of fast-paced user-interface applications have enhanced people's status quo  and performance rate in our fast-paced society to that of a "multi-tasker." Technology users can now do literally thousands of things almost simultaneously: text, search the web, play games, and listen to music all the same time conveniently on their  phones or tablets. Moreover, teachers no longer must painfully write and rewrite lectures on the board, and students no longer must take endless pages of notes now when PowerPoint invades the classrooms.  Just to further illustrate the pervasive use of technology in contemporary society, one of my college professors, as probably many others also, prepares and lectures his class from his phone! Everything is now at the fingertips, even the job materials! This isn't at all  a rant about the maybe not so seemingly malicious ways technology has suppressed our lives and numbed our minds; however, on the optimistic side, technology may at least make its users not look blatantly awkward for once. Many times when I am at the store or on campus, I might see someone presumably talking to a cereal box on the shelf or another person sitting alone and talking to thin air. These kinds of confusing moments in life might evoke the intention to just politely ask the person, "Are you talking to your self?" Well, surely they are not! Is it not obvious that they have the new wireless bluetooth earpiece or the intriguing mobile, hands free headset with a bluetooth microphone? Thus, it is preposterous to notion a personality disorder. Thank you, Technology, for changing human perceptions on social awkwardness. At least now if I want to think out loud and still be normal, I can simply wear a headset.
 


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