Disconnected
I was born in 1982, which means that, depending on who you ask, I'm either a very young member of Generation X or an old member of Generation Y.
People born around this time are two things (according to people who study these sorts of things):
1. Old enough to remember a time before our lives were saturated with the Internet.
2. Young enough to be as comfortable using the Internet as a so-called "digital native".
On a day-to-day basis, I'm pretty wired in, but I can still remember being in high school and spending hours just staring out the window, doing nothing more than letting my mind run wild.
I still make an effort to do this on a regular basis: go stare at the ocean, or take a hike in the mountains. No phone, no computer, no video games, no iPod...just me and my mind.
I don't think technology is evil, and I'm skeptical of every "technology is making us stupid" type of argument, but I do think that the ability to step away from technology and just be (in the zen sense of the word) is still massively beneficial to us.
People born around this time are two things (according to people who study these sorts of things):
1. Old enough to remember a time before our lives were saturated with the Internet.
2. Young enough to be as comfortable using the Internet as a so-called "digital native".
On a day-to-day basis, I'm pretty wired in, but I can still remember being in high school and spending hours just staring out the window, doing nothing more than letting my mind run wild.
I still make an effort to do this on a regular basis: go stare at the ocean, or take a hike in the mountains. No phone, no computer, no video games, no iPod...just me and my mind.
I don't think technology is evil, and I'm skeptical of every "technology is making us stupid" type of argument, but I do think that the ability to step away from technology and just be (in the zen sense of the word) is still massively beneficial to us.