Technology can be amazing, as well as terrible. Depending on your skill level with technology you can make it work to your advantage or it can end up causing you many problems. In my personal experiences with technology, I have had many ups and downs.
For instance I have much luck with technology from the apple/mac company, it is all simple and easy to connect with other devices and doesn't really require much skills to work with as far as simple tasks. Along with the luck I have also had my downfalls with it. For some reason after I had purchased my iPad I spent probably a total of 3 hours getting it connected to my printer, but it only took 5 minutes to connect my macbook pro to my printer.
This constant battle with technology all stems from the technology outgrowing the education about it and the abilities of the consumers. For a technology buff everything seems simple as can be and highly efficient, but for your average person it could cause someone to have a mental breakdown just trying to print a page, save a file, or play a song. This is also very embarrassing for me to say but it took me about 20 minutes to figure this whole blog thing out, considering this is the first time I had ever used a blog site for actually posting.
You're completely right about technology being frustrating. I have experienced bad luck with anything I end up buying. There is ALWAYS a glitch or a product that I have bought that ends up being recalled. It's not very trustworthy. Also, how you mentioned connecting device to device. Especially, with the iPad, you think it would be sooooooo technologically advance that it could just hook up to anything, but nooooo, Apple can be evil.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with everything you mentioned. The idea that technology is always evolving and outgrowing us; that no matter how good our current phone is, we absolutely must have the new one even if there isn't much of a difference between them. What a tragic existence, eh?
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