Technology

How awesome is technology?  It allows me to instantly contact someone with fax, text, cell phone calls, and e-mail.  With the assistance of a GPS I never have to worry about getting lost on my way home again.  With e-mail and Facebook I can easily stay in touch with family members who are hundreds of miles away.  Yep, it is pretty great.  However (ya'll should have seen that coming).  I think back on a conversation that Dumbass and I had this past week.  He was in his truck and I could hear his GPS which got us to talking about how amazing the GPS is.  I can program an address in and it will tell me street by street, turn by turn the best way to get there.  Yes, that little box is amazing because if I miss a turn or ignore it the thing will instantly recalculate and still get me from point A to point B.  Pretty cool huh?  I stopped to reflect on this which led to a discussion of how most children of today will never learn to read a map.  Do all of ya'll (remember that is the plural) remember learning to read a map and at the risk of sounding old even remember when service stations gave maps for free?  They didn't even have a highlighted spot that said, "you are here".  My grandchildren know who Superman is but they have no idea what a phone booth is and most likely have never seen a pay phone.  Ah, and the lost art of letter writing!  And it really is a lost art!  Do they even still teach it in school.  Again, at the risk of sounding ancient, we learned to write business letters, thank you notes, and just general letter writing in school.  Yes, technology is wonderful and I am thankful for it yet at the same time I can't help but be a little sad at the things that have been compromised because of it.  Things that make you go 'hum'.   Have an awesome day.