Slave to Technology


FOXNews.com - Bush Advises Graduates to Avoid Becoming Enslaved by Technology

STILLWATER, Okla. — President Bush advised college graduates on Saturday to use technology but not become enslaved by it.

Bush Speech“Science offers the prospect of eventual cures for terrible diseases — and temptations to manipulate life and violate human dignity,” Bush said during commencement exercises at Oklahoma State University. “With the Internet, you can communicate instantly with someone halfway across the world — and isolate yourself from your family and your neighbors.”

The nation’s young generation will wrestle to resolve these dilemmas, he said.

“My advice: Harness the promise of technology without becoming slaves to technology. My advice is that science serves the cause of humanity and not the other way around,” the president said.

Bush highlighted recent economic gains and told the graduates that an improving job market is giving them more job opportunities.

“The job market for college graduates is the best it has been in years,” he said. “This economy of ours is strong and so you’ll have more jobs to choose from than previous classes and your starting salaries will be higher. And the opportunities beyond are only limited by the size of your dreams.”

Interesting point, I will say. I mean I look at this two ways. 1: I’m a child of the web, therefore I adapted and found how to use it in my life to my advantage. I bank online, not over the phone or in the branch (but so do 75% of the country), I read whitepaper manuals rather then books, I read my news online and glance at the paper, I index important documents so I can search them later, rather then filing them in a pile at the corner of the room. In all these cases it’s to my advantage, where as I don’t believe I’m a slave to technology I do feel the need for it and like an addiction, I need it when I don’t have it.

That said, 2: I am addicted to technology. I need email, I need my RSS feeds, I need to look at photos every day and I can’t afford to take 4 rolls of film daily, it’s much easier to download the DNG (digi neg) from my overly-expensive digital camera. So in that sense, there is some truth to what he’s saying and I have to agree.

I mean hell, for the first year of dating my girl I didn’t know her number, I just knew I could hit a key on my cell and she would answer. Scarry, but true.


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