Technology runs my life!

I hate to admit it, but sometimes it seems that we have too much technology.

We’ve become so connected that we’re expected to respond to eveything in real-time. Far from remaining business tools, our ICT systems have become our captors, enslaving us to an oppressive existance. Hopelessly dependent on instant gratifaction, we’ve become information junkies. We panic when forced to wait for a response to our immediate (and therefore pressing and URGENT right? RIGHT?!) needs. It’s beginning to feel that our technology is running us. (No wonder we call them CrackBerries!)

In He’s Just Not That Into You Drew Barrymore’s character explains the frustration of having so many forms of communication on the go:

I had this guy leave me a voicemail at work, so I called him at home, and then he emailed me to my BlackBerry, and so I texted to his cell, and now you just have to go around checking all these different portals just to get rejected by seven different technologies. It’s exhausting.

I felt the same way recently. I was at home with a sick child, and had subsequently become unwell myself. My work BlackBerry was abuzz with urgent incoming emails from work, and I was logging on to my hotmail so I could review the attachments (it’s still easier on a PC screen than on a BlackBerry). While flipping between the two, both my personal mobile and the BlackBerry both began to ring. When my mother then rang me on the home phone to see how the house full of patients were holding up, I gave up and went to bed.