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| Publishing Frequency - Twice Monthly | February 1 , 2007 | Vol.#4 Issue#2 |
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ODing on Technology It's been coming on for some time now... maybe months, maybe years. But it was the Cadillac that finally tipped me over the edge. For some time now I've been noticing how we seem to be plugging into technology more and more, which is diverting us from connecting with each other. Examples I've seen:
My discomfort with the disconnect we seem to be experiencing from each other due to being plugged in to some technological gadget or another grows daily. I came to the tip-over point with the Cadillac. When we were in Hawaii recently, I had reserved a car online. There were no mid-size cars, so I ended up with a Mustang convertable. When I got to the rental office, I asked if there were other cars available. "Oh yes," said the woman at the reservation desk. "We have a luxury car and an SUV." I wanted neither and told her what I really wanted was a smaller car. Her response was to tell me she would give me the luxury car for the same price as the Mustang. Well, I can't resist a deal like that! So I went for it. As it turned out, the luxury car was a big, hulking Cadillac, and not the Jaguar I had envisioned. I found the car on the lot, opened the door, and sat down behind the steering wheel. It was then that I went into instant overwhelm. There, before me, were more buttons for controlling this and adjusting that than I had ever seen before in my life. And NONE of them had words on them. Instead, they all had teeny icons that weren't very explanatory or informational. It took me a few minutes to figure out how to open the windows. I was feeling smugly confident after I'd figured this out, when I accidently touched a button imprinted simply with "1" on it and everything started to move... the seat moved forward and up, the back of it slanted backward, the steering wheel flipped up, and the side mirrors and rear view mirror moved out of focus. It was then that I noticed that something was moving around and around on my lower back. Apparently the car came with a built-in back massage unit. After a 10 minute search to find the button that turned the annoying thing off, I figured we were ready to roll. As I looked in the side mirrors before beginning to back out, I noticed that what I was seeing was blue sky in the right one and the front tire of the car next to me on the left. Three days later I finally figured out which buttons adjusted the side mirrors. In the mean time, we adjusted them the old way - manually. There were seven - count 'em - seven buttons to open and close the moon and sun roof. Don't get me started on the air conditioning buttons OR the digital display for the radio OR the button that displayed the air pressure in each tire - sequentially, no less. I didn't see an odometer, but I'm sure there was a button for it somewhere. The rear view mirror had a light display that told me in which direction the front of the car was pointed. I couldn't figure out how this was helpful when I was looking in the rear view mirror to see where the opposite end of the car was going. I was so focused on all these buttons and what they could do that I found them distracting as I was driving. Conversations with my husband became all about the technological stuff crammed into this car and how to use it. I can't tell you how happy I was to get back home to my much less techie Ford pick-up truck. What a relief to be able to focus on driving rather than a gazillion buttons that do who-knows-what. My husband and I once again have sane conversations while we're driving somewhere, as opposed to the maniacal screaming that was coming from the driver's seat in the Cadillac, warning him to NOT touch any buttons because one just might activate an ejection seat. Love, ps. If you're experiencing technological overdosing and would like to simplify your life, call me. 253-853-4033.
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