The (dis)advantages of technology

Our society is evolving from hour to hour. We can see technological advance in our daily life , objects, cars, houses, everything. We can notice that fifty years ago people used to talk on long distance using the telephone and letters and now we can talk from everywhere with a mobile phone and talk live with someone that is in other part of the world. Children's toys are becoming robots or something of the kind, like airplanes, telephones, computers, remote electronic cars, etc. Everything is becoming technological and robotical. We read books in the cellphone, listen to music and watch films everywhere, we can talk with friends and family that are miles away, we schedule our life in electronic agendas. The point is everything is becoming technological, even our heart. We are becoming dependent on technology, we are trading bone and flesh friends, our real and human friends, by online friends or even artificial friends. We are increasing the sedentarism among people and becoming heartless. We just care about the number of coments in our Hi5, Facebook or Twitter, we are trading the greatest books and our beautiful classical music by RGP games and electronic music.
We need to see clearly what is wrong and right in our society and what I've realised is that we are in a laundry room, where there are groups of people organized by colours, tastes, etc, and when everybody spins around, we spin too. We need to spin around our opinion and absorve the most of good and healthy habits, in a way to become better and leaving the technology where is needed, which isn't for sure in our heart. Let's face our society and our way of living and realise that we need a heart and friends in order to become better, wiser and more human, and I'm sure that we don't need a robot to love or a Internet connection to have a friend.

Daniel Amaral