The Virtue of Daydreaming…
February 13, 2009 12:00 pmI took a reluctant Nestea plunge into the shimmering surface of iPhone ownership a few months ago. A friend welcomed me to the fold with a warm…
“Your life will never be the same ;)”
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…text message, I have to say that she was right. I have a long history of dysfunctional relationships with PDA / mobile phone technologies… and after a few months of using the glorious iPhone, I must testify that Mr. Jobs got right everything that Palm and Microsoft screwed up. It is silky smooth and amazing in most every regard… and what’s more, it actually works, just about everything I try to do with it… works as advertised or better.
So I should be happy right? Well, yes and no. Perhaps I am over committed to a suspicious under appreciation of life’s simple e-pleasures… or maybe there is something to consider here.
I believe one of the greatest dangers of our current breed of technological prowess is that we can quickly make things that work too well. I believe the iPhone, just happens to be such a gadget.
We have all relegated ourselves to the mandatory sentence of mobile phone custodianship. It goes everywhere we do and we are ever vigilant in response to its beckoning. Even when its not nudging me, I find myself gravitating to its allure. Check e-mail, tetris, a website, podcast, tetris, youtube, text message, Google myself, listen to some music, tetris , visit Rome on Google earth, or just browse the app store. There really is never a waking moment that is not tempted to be filled by the wonders made available by this little portal to everything.
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