Still fed up!

Ok, so last week my blog was about how I felt technology had a negative affect on our society by dragging them further and further away from reality. As Atiya's latest blog talks about, the alternate reality Second Life is just one example of  people immersing themselves in an alternate world ultimatly losing touch with actual reality. 
The more places I visit where there are people around the less faith I have in us as a society.  Next time you are at the mall or a restaurant as a social experiment, for a minute, take your eyes away from your cell phone (no it wont kill you) and look around the restaurant at the people around you... I can bet you the majority have their heads down texting or phones attached to their ear. When did it become so much cooler to talk to someone your not with as opposted to the people you are with?

It seems like every week we see a new commercial for a new phone or a new computer or pad or whatever else they can think of... All the while slowly and quietly our economy, healthcare, government and everything else really important in this country goes to down the toilet.  But hey, check out my new wall post and look at the new app I found, and suddenly the world is right again... Whoever "they" is, whoever is overloading us with new, new technology is blinding us from reality. 
Yes, I'm sure they have good intentions and a lot of technolgy that is produced is for the betterment of society and for healthcare.  Those aspects of the spectrum are wonderful and should be fully embraced by society. 
However, I am pleading with people to work out of our new, new technology coma and take an interest in what is going on in our country.  We can make a difference and help make change, but we cannot do it hiding in a cell phone.