RE: Is my phone my life?
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Sometimes I think it's just we allow these things into our lives that think FOR us and fill the void. We can't navigate because we haven't practiced that skill. Goodness these days I wouldn't have a clue how to research, book, execute a trip without my phone yet in 2001 I travelled Europe, UK and Asia with a 4 year old with no phone. I mean we had internet cafes I suppose. The internet was a place you entered and left through a physical door and paid per 15 minute block. It was a tool, not an extension of self.
Jamie will put Google maps on for the easiest of trips. I'd rather use my gut and street smarts because you pay more attention and gain more, not least the ability to do it again.
Ulitmately, survival will belong to the ones who remember not to mistake tools for wise advisors, leaders, and roadside companions.
Bring on the techocalypse. I'm ready. But I'm Gen X - we had these resources before the internet got here. Feel free to be on my team.
Help, I got a papercut from my map, and my wrist doesn't have the strength to turn a key in the ignition, and oh, what's that third pedal on the floor of the car.... and what do you mean the eggs don't need to go in the fridge... and ...
HOW DO PEOPLE KNOW STUFF!!!!!
I'll be on your team. Gladly! It's important to hold on to those street smarts. I've seen plenty of Gen X-ers willingly throwing their wisdom away as though it were something they'd been dying to get rid of when technology came to relieve them. Don't seem clever to me.