Sunday Morning Revelation
I am from a generation that grew up with
technology. I have scarcely written a letter in my entire life,
preferring emails and text messages, and studied for my degree by
downloading lecture notes, typing reports and uploading the
finished product to a university intranet.
Pen and paper seems a thing of the
past. Something from primary school, along with Crayolas and Pritt
Sticks.
This has carried through to my
working life where everything is produced on Microsoft Office,
stored on a hard drive and emailed en masse to destinations across
the country.
In a world of mp3s, YouTube, social networking and an array
of other online distractions, we have become almost entirely
reliant on technology.
This became apparent to me this
weekend. Following a Saturday afternoon spent downloading music on
iTunes I went
out for some drinks in town (after checking my bank balance
online).
A couple of friends were meeting us
after their meal in Sapporo
on Duke Street and had walked up Hardman Street to meet us in
Magnet.
There had been a power cut at some
point between the two places, leaving a number of bars and
restaurants left with no option but to shut up shop on what should
have been the busiest night of their week. No computers, no
service. Thankfully Magnet was left unaffected, the drinks
continued to flow and the tunes kept spinning.
The idea for this blog came to me on
Sunday morning while I was hazily flicking through the weekend
supplements, coffee and buttery toast by my side (surely one of
life's simplest pleasures?).
Saturday's power cut reminded me
of Friday afternoon's IT issues in work which meant the office
was without functioning computers for all of five minutes. What did
we do? Sat there waiting for The PC Support Group - always on
hand and a complete lifesaver - to give us the all clear to log on
and continue going about our working day.
With increasing numbers of people
choosing to get their news online, at the same time as ordering
groceries and paying bills, newspaper circulations are plummeting.
Whilst technology undoubtedly makes many things much easier,
perhaps we shouldn't be so quick to abandon the practices that
have served us so well for so long.
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