Well. It’s 23:30 as I write this so I am definitely cutting it close today. I just didn’t want to break the chain.
I have to admit that I am super tired as I have only just finished the urgent and important stuff on my plate. The good news is that tomorrow is a team get together day so it will be a bit of downtime for a change.
I guess the thing I am most grateful for today is that I can afford the technology that I have. It is liberating. Yesterday afternoon, I took my son to play soccer with his friends, and I needed to wait at the venue. I also had a meeting that I needed to dial into. So there I was, multitasking to the max, and all I needed was my cellphone and AirPods. I even found myself dashing into Starbucks in the middle of the meeting because I really needed a coffee. None of this was possible 10 – 15 years ago, and in South Africa, this level of convenience is still out of reach for at least a third of the population.
For my son, this is all the norm, but for me, it is utterly mindblowing that my whole world is on that cellphone. I don’t even need a purse anymore! I am really grateful that I am able to afford and use the tech that is now available to us. It’s amazing!
I am going to keep it short and sweet tonight. Thanks for popping by!
Bye for now!
Grounded African 
I was thinking about this the other day – how easily I can find information on my phone these days – such as what bus to take, or how to get to places.
I realized we had ways to get this information before having smart phones or even the Internet at home (or even computers at home), but those methods seem so inefficient now…
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It’s crazy how quickly we have adopted the tech and even crazier that we lived without it for so long. 😊 I can’t imagine what the future holds with AI. Very exciting.
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It’s very exciting but can also be very scary. Innovation can create greate social changes, but often the price for it can be high and unexpected.
For instance technology in many ways made us less physically active than we had been in the past, causing the obesity epidemic. Even the invention of remote controls for TVs is partially to blame for that.
Or the invention of cars (or rather the invention of profuction lines by Ford, allowing cars to become cheaper and affordable for more people) made cart builders go out of business. They often had to scramble to find another job, and sone unfortunately didn’t and ended up poor just because technology made them obsolete…
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I agree. The changes tech advances bring about can be scary and we do need to be mindful of its potential impact so that we don’t get caught in the net of unintended consequences.
I was just telling my son the other day that his future world will be very different. He needs to pay attention to AI and figure out how to use it for his (and society’s) benefit so that he always stays ahead of the curve.
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Sometimes I wonder if all this technology is a blessing or a curse 😊.
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Haha. True. I am going to lean towards blessing because of the convenience and the opportunities it creates but there are some things that it can never replace like human connection.
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