September 15, 2005
From hi-tech to my tech
A wonderful reflective piece written by Richard Adams for The Guardian on how cell phones and the Internet have fundamentally changed the way we live.
... "as Proust observed: "The advance of civilisation enables people to display unsuspected qualities or fresh defects which make them dearer or more insupportable to their friends." These new technologies not only change our world, they also change ourselves. The complexity and variety of modern personal technology is such that it enters our lives in ways we cannot anticipate.
It is comforting to learn, then, that the most popular use of a mobile phone, after talking and texting, is its most humble: the alarm clock. Because new technology is always being used, in ways we don't expect, as a wakeup call."
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