Good Morning,
Last evening, my family went to the University Club at the University of Louisville to attend a travelogue about Israel. At the table we were assigned we met some wonderful people. Two of which discovered they lived around the block from each other some 60 years prior. I am told that is the way it is in Louisville, it’s a really big small town.
Anyway, during one of the conversations, a lady talked about how air conditioners changed civilization. That what neighborhoods used to be before the advent of air conditioners is vastly different from how they are today. People would sit on their porches, kids would play outside and neighbors would spend time talking to each other and visiting each other often. After air conditioners, people spend most of their time inside their houses. Kids spend less time outdoors, neighbors spend less time interacting with each other. Etc.
This made me think about other advances in technology which have had equal and opposite reactions to the way we live.
Text messages are another game changer in the world we live in. Recent reports indicate that most teenagers communicate with each other through text messages than any other form of communication, including phone calls, emails, letters or even face to face communication. That if you go to a room full of kids, most of them will be texting other people in the same room without even so much as looking up and over at them.
In reading an article on the top ten changes in business, one item jumped out. We are so connected to our work and each other that we cannot go home, on vacation or pretty much anywhere without somehow being attached to work. That is the line between work and personal life has thinned and in some cases completely vanished. We do personal banking online at work, and send and receive work emails at home. Our lives are becoming decompartmentalized.
And there is the Internet, the global game-changer.
I find it interesting that the advances we have made, have had a nearly opposite effect on our lives.
These advances have in effect changed who we are. How we live, how we interact with others, and reduced or even eliminated the walls between the different parts of our lives. The speed of communication is blinding today. There is no time to breath, life happens so fast these days.
We need to be careful as to not to lose ourselves in the sea of technological advances and time-saving devices.
What other ways have you noticed our lives have been changed?
Enjoy!
Sanford Berenberg
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