Whats up with technology these days?!

So Ive been thinking about getting the Kindle from Amazon. For those of you who don't know what that is, its the electronic book that a person can store up to 1,500 books where books cost about $9.99, lightweight, and it has a 3G network so you can download books WHEREEVER you are?! Amazing huh.

The ability to store all these books in a 10 onces which is a pound and the ability to use the internet is......wow. But then I started to think about other things, other then its price. Working for an optometrist, ive learned a lot about how to keep your eyes healthy AND how to prevent worsening your prescription.

So im not one to bag on technology, heck Im all for it. if it makes your life easier and faster in basically no work to you, then why the fuck not right?! Well, i believe with the advancement of these new machines, its kind of a shove-and-pull effect, and let me explain:

Lets rewind to the 80's the good ol' glory days. where hip hop first began, style was...well colorful, and soon-to-be famous music was being made. I mean back then what was technology? A typewriter, the invention of the Pac Man game (imagine how BIG that was), the cassettes/walkman......who would of thought in 20yrs people would be able to store ALL their music into an Ipod or be able to order/get anything online with a laptop, or have an interactive game experience with the Wii AND even storing all your vinyls into a laptop instead of lugging milk creates?! cool huh? So technology has made everything FASTER..BETTER..STONGER..and has PUSHED us towards progressiveness and has let us to communicate with each other around the world.

But the Pull? hmm does anyone think about the consequences? Well I think there are a lot....which im not going to dwell in like: global warming (the big corporations are dumping their wastes into the environment), lack of exercise (more people just sitting around in front of a screen), AND EYE STRAIN

Here's a fact:
According to the American Eye-Q ® survey, nearly 46% of all Americans spend 5 or more hours per day using a computer or “smart phone”. Prolonged use of these devices may lead to symptoms of Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) which include eye strain, dry eyes, headaches, blurred vision, fatigue, and loss of focus.

I mean when did a phone stop being JUST a phone?! Now having internet, music, and a camera on a phone is STANDARD.
-When did a playing console stop playing JUST video games ?! Now features like blu-ray and internet are expected.
-And 3-D movies are starting to become more and more popular!!
-Whats next?! I feel flying cars aren't too far away, heck in the next 20 we could be traveling from Earth to the moon like driving from The Bay to L.A.

Back to "The Pull." I guess why I am so irked is because I feel we will soon lose some skills along the way: like will DJ's in the future know how to scratch and play on solely vinyls? Does anyone out there know how to make a mixtape with cassettes? Will kids rely their research all on GOOGLE and the internet and stop going to the library and use books?.....I mean these aren't life threatening skills, and we probably won't need them BUT STILL!!! I just don't want us to have to rely on it TOO much, I mean what happens when your computer/laptop crashes with all your essays..information..pictures.music...we're fucked. And when our iPods break? get a new one I guess.

MY dad tells me: back when i was your age, we didn't even have boooks to study?! we had to copy everything down on our notebooks, *I laugh*, yea you guys are lucky you can get anything on the comptuer now.

And its good that I am reminded of where things once were in the "pre-historic" days; it humbles me a little and reminds me that there was once a "hard life. The life where Sam Goody still existed and sold singles, where all kids did was watch movies at the mall with their backpacks, and play outside until it was dark or they got hungry, where we used our imaginations to pretend to be Power Rangers ( or Ninja Turtles), and if you wanted porn you had to dig in your uncle/dad's "secret" box..haha

Like I said, I am not one to hate on technology, but I just feel people out there are excessively using it. Like everything else in life: MODERATION. LETS GET BACK OUT THERE PEOPLE. pick up an instrument and jam...get a ball and shoot it... call your friends and drink on the beach..shit man READ a BOOK.

That was my rant. NOW watch this, its the new Gorillaz video ft. Mos Def called "Stylo" click here.