The Smart Phone

We love entertainment. We hate doing things that don’t entertain or benefit us in the present or very foreseeable future. We are becoming so stuck in this mindset as a generation that we desire to be entertained at all times and never want to work. We know we have to, and we force ourselves when we can. Technology is now at a place where it can keep up with our desire to be entertained. The smart phone is a revolution in this area. 1G, 2G, 3G, 4! We can now expect Wi-Fi on our phones and enjoy the internet at our fingertips whenever we want it. We don’t have to text people in class or do crossword puzzles or pretend to be taking notes on our computers to be online anymore! We now have an excellent choice of listening to music, watching TV or movies, surfing the internet, internet games, online blogs, YouTube, etc. right in our pockets. We can now take our time wasting devices (I do begrudgingly add that that is not all they are used for. It is more our nature and lack of restraint that plagues us) with us wherever we go, just in case we have some time that we can spend immersed in our separate little world we carry around with us.



This article from CNN suggests the addiction to smartphones and technology in general. I do not hate technology. There are so many benefits and things that have made our lives and jobs easier through technology, but instead of using the time we saved through technology to become more efficient, we alternatively choose to waste the time in entertainment or mindless escape. We could accomplish so much more in life by breaking our cultural addiction to time-wasters. Life would not be better without technology, but life would be better if we learned self-control and discipline in our time management.