At my place of employment, there are a few fellow employees who have cell phones in their pockets. You may believe that I'm in an office or something. However in fact, I'm working in a factory, cleaning food processing equipment 36 hours a week. Having any form of hard plastic and glass in a factory setting is unfortunately, a Good Manufacturing Practice Hazard. All that GMPs signify is a set of rules which promote not only the safety of individuals, but ensure that the food manufacturing process doesn't become something of a product recall nightmare due to something like a strand of hair in the finished product. Basically, if the rules are followed, there is less of a chance of product contamination, product recalls, and a cleaner, more efficiently running production plant overall.
What drives me nuts at work is the fact that the cell phones are left on, in those individual's pockets, and some are even having a conversation with the individuals on the receiving end of the messages. Most of the time what is taking place is texting small messages or remarks during a production run at both of the plants which I work within. To think that having to pay for that phone, car payments, groceries, or having the privilege of a roof over your head is less important or valuable than replying to an E-Mail on a texting device.
Have we come to expect so much from technology that it is becoming a part of ourselves, an extension of our bodies to which we are continuously plugged into the world ? Is this purely the beginning of a new evolution in which we become Bio-mechanic beings which can never tire or have to sleep anymore?
Okay, that is a little bit of an overreaction with a dash of melodramatic. Didn't mean to scare people there. Whatever connection we have to technology has us all convinced that without such resources, we would become disconnected from any form or knowledge, or feel as if we are alone in the world with no concrete guidance or proof that such events are transpiring before our eyes. So, if technology would happen to have a massive accident, say due to a cyber worm/virus, could that very well mark society's last days of order and sanity?
You could almost get away with saying that the world runs on a wide network of computer programs, data, statistics, and informational network data flow. All this data, compiled into certain clusters of databanks, reformatted, encrypted, accessed by billions of users daily, updated, e-mailed, received, copied, and redistributed throughout the globe a numerous multitude of times to the general public/businesses/organizations/etc. Information of any delight changes milliseconds after it has been sent out, merely adding to the single ocean of which can be called the Internet. Versions of this differential information piles up on the web's search pages, all there to be accessed 24/7/365. That in itself is spectacular, even mind-blowing.
Processing even a second of time would produce 1 million events which transpired in that one timeframe. History forever changed, the decisions made now irreversible, and the impacts to be attended to either in a negative or positive tone of mind. One blink of the eye can be the beginning of one life, and the finality of someone's last breath of life leaving their lips. We are so much connected to everything and anything which resides within our minds, bodies, souls, and any interactive or relative object or substance in the existence of the entire globe and universe. Given these simplest of rights further amplifies our connection to machines or technology, and the constant craving to be within its grasp.
To say the least, we have been given the choice as to which direction the human race has decided to go, where it wants to end up, and how we are going to end up in that pre-destined, yet undetermined factor. Life is a choice which we all have the power to utilize, explore, experience, destroy, or discover. Even the simple things are complex in their own right, and having that knowledge will only further guide us all to what we are all searching for, with or without technology to lead the way.
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