Technology and Beautiful Days

Today is such a nice day. The air is not hot and sticky, and its not overly hot. It is like perfect weather, to me at least. But what have I done today? Well let's see, I made my morning coffee trip, and got a bagel. Then I came home and worked on some settings for my fantasy football league. Then I made a Ustream video for my league. What does all this rambling pertain to you might ask. Well I guess the point I am getting at is that technology has really taken the front seat in the world. There are people out there who would kill for nice days all the time, and here I am wasting it by recording videos and blogging. I mean granted other than golfing, I'm not really an outdoors person, but still what a waste. I could have accomplished a lot today. Digitally I have accomplished a ton, but in terms of real life, my productivity is at an all time minimum. So my question is, has technology overtaken our lives? Is something that is meant to make our lives easier, replacing living life to its fullest? In some cases I feel like it has altered my ways, and made me waste a lot more time living. Technological advances have taken over so much of my life that I cannot imagine not having them around.

I don't know these are just random thoughts. I often think about how my life would be without a blackberry, macbook, and ipod. The problem is I CAN'T picture it without them. This leads me to wonder what it will be like in 20 years. Will I even have to get out of bed? Or will some robot go do all my errands and work for me? Just a little fuel for thought for the day...