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Technology Treadmill

Phone in your home

Phone with you on the road

Three way connections

Incoming calls, not one, but another-aka call waiting

Phones with caller ID

Cordless phones

Hands free phones

Toothy phones sticking out of people's ears

Picture phones...say cheese!

Phone texting instead of talking

Hello? I cannot hear you!

 

Television and movies in your home

DVD players in your car

Watch those images on your computer

Watch them on your cell phone

Television in the airport

Television in the restaurant

Television at the gas pump

Television in the grocery store line

What's next? Television in the operating room?

 

Music on your home stereo

Music on your car radio

Store it all on your traveling ipod

Melodious cell phone rings everywhere

Your mp3 player and new computer speakers

Your favorite cable music channels

And plenty of music blasted in the stores

Can't I just have a thought to myself?

 

Don't forget computers!

Instant messaging

Junk mail in cyberspace

All your shows and movies

always at your instant access

Computer dating

Computer stalkers and hacking

Computer crashes I foresee

because computer bugs and viruses

are trying to invade my soul!

And I feel sick!

 

I can't get that music out of my head!

I think my ears are ringing!

You've heard of couch potatoes

I think I'm a mouse potato!

How is that for a human spud?

Yes, I admit I'm addicted to my PC!

That I spend more time with technology

than I do with the human race!

 

I should be burnt out

like old hardware

that is on extreme overload

Not made of wires and steel

but of flesh and blood

I am designed!

 

But I can't stop!!!

 

The technology of the future is now here!

I know what George Jetson was saying when he said:

JANE! GET ME OFF THIS CRAZY THING!

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dorothy-anderson
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Aug 12, 2010
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