Again, it's what you do with it

by Badgerman on Tuesday July 11, 2000 @05:46AM

We're allowing technology to make our lives more complicated and less relaxing. I know I myself do that way too often.

However, the point is, and always has been, technology is going to have results depending on how we use it. So, we've chosen to use it to make life more stressful in many cases. Let's face it, we only have ourselves to blame if we do it to ourselves or let it happen to us.

It's not a "good" versus "bad" technology or the white-hat workers versus the black-hat evil Corporatists. Life's divisions aren't that simple.

Don't like it? Change it.

Take that vacation time, put your foot down, don't overtax your employees, find that job that gives you a break, stop using the net to fill up every spare moment, etc.

Our worst problem is somehow the ideal that more "work" is somehow noble, admirable, a sign of superiority. So we let ourselves work harder and longer - but for what result? Doesn't seem worth it to me.