Are We Forgetting to Live in this Technology Laden World?

How will our children and our grand-children, for that matter, our great grand-children, remember us? How will they know us?  Will they have to resort to looking at our cached Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn profiles?  Will they have to peruse the many blog entries on Wordpress.com, Blogger.com?  Will they go in history to read through the many tweets we left behind through twitter.com?  Will they have to view the many digital photos we post on Flickr.com,  Picasaweb.google.com?  In our technology centric lives today,  we are contanstly connected with each other, to the world, through not only computer but mini portable devices like iPhone, Blackberry.  Some of u s have even taken up microblooging every moment of our day and our sensory experiences.  I pause to ask, in this contant recording and archiving of every moment of our lives, are we missing out from being the 1st person ‘experiencer’ of these moments?  After all, our respective experiences of our respective lives, are really meant for us to experience first person as opposed to being the recorder behind that camera or phone?  How often are we truly enjoying an experience with our own senses without becoming the operator of some techno gadget recording the experience for later viewing on a monitor?

The fine line between what’s worth documenting and what’s not is a hard one to define. We immediately assume that the most important, the biggest, the most incredible moments are those that should be recorded. But it’s these very moments that are best to experience live, with our full focus.

This post on ReadWriteWeb.com brings up this very same phenomenon of our culture today.  Although there can not be a concise answer to this.  For each their own.  The collective, collaborative, social answers truly don’t apply.  After all,  a web poll around this question would only defeat the true purpose of asking this question.  How then, do we determine when to unplug, when to experience life as it happes with all our focus?  Seek advice from your inner human self, the self that desires the human contact of being there, the self that hungers for the full sensory input for your biological self.  Although a moment captured on camera might last longer than your vivid first person memory, being the operator of the camera while the moment passes leaves your with no real interaction of self for that moment at all.

Technology is Great, but Are We Forgetting to Live? by Sarah Perez

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