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Hey everybody, if you please read the OPINION article I wrote down below, it shouldnt take to much of your time, I want to hear your thoughts so please, comment/share :) I would like to thank Andrea Proia and Enzo Coppola for inspiring me to think hard and write about this! The age of technology is not the new age of enlightenment. Dont get me wrong, technology is a wonderful thing. But, has technology spurred new thoughts, created new ways of thinking? I dont think so. Anything that we as humans could discover or learn we THINK is on the internet or in technology. It’s not. We need to stop being slaves to our, computers, smartphones the internet, and social media. I fear for our generation and the next generation. My generation partially grew up with computers and the internet, and we still (hopefully) know how to “unplug” from all of it. However, the next generation has grown up with computers, the internet and all of this new technology and we haven’t taught them how to “unplug.” If your child is unhappy, you give them something fun to watcher play with on your smart phone, if they are board you sit them in front of the computer and play games. There is no such thing as creativity anymore! When you are in a car, do you tune into your favourite TV show on your phone? Or plug into music because you are bored? Whatever happened to watching what was going on outside? Gaining creativity, coming up with new ideas, and new ways of thinking. There is more to see, explore and experience out side your window then there could ever be on the internet or on a screen. Can you touch that cute dog that you see on your computer? Can you throw it a ball and play fetch? Or how about the beautiful exotic places in the world that we always see on the internet? Like Europe, South America, and Asia just to name a few. You can read about these places, you can see them in pictures, but you cant feel the warmth of the sun on your face or the sand between your toes, smell the salty ocean, taste the local cuisine or hear the tropical waves crash against the shore line! When you are seeing an exotic location online, that all your doing, you are SEEING it and not EXPERIENCING it. Take my situation for instance. Before coming here to Alcamo, Sicily, I could SEE the ocean, but I couldnt SMELL the salty air, I could SEE the church in the main square, but i couldnt HEAR its sweet sounding bells ring every morning, I could SEE the food, but I couldnt TASTE how the locals make it. Its time for everyone to start putting down their technology, and start EXPERIENCING instead of just SEEING. We need to stop saving for that new piece of technology that you just HAVE to buy, so you can SEE the world better online and save for a plane ticket. A plane ticket to anywhere on this planet, or even now, outside of this planet. The world is here for you to explore. Lets teach ourselves, the next generation and the generation after that, that you don’t need to be a slave technology, you can see the world without an iPad, a computer, a phone or virtual reality. I think its time to get lost in this amazing world. Teach ourselves how to dream again. Come up with new ideas, new was of thinking. Break out the film camera and instead of trying to live in moments of pure perfection, start appreciating moments of imperfection. In the immortal words of Steve Jobs, its time to “think different.”
Posted on: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 17:36:31 +0000

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