Techno Doom

Stating the obvious, we live in an immediate world. I dread to think to what greater degree this will be true in 25 years time. It appears to be the norm these days to expect a dialled mobile to be answered, straight away, every time, as if the future of the world depended on it. Well, surprise surprise, it doesn’t. I’ve lived a good two-thirds of my life so far without a mobile. I survived as did my parents and my grandparents. People had a social life, businesses managed to operate and even make a profit. I do have a mobile and use it as a phone plus the odd text. No social networking, no video calls. I even try to discourage design colleagues at work from using the number. They are told to use the landline and if I’m not there, to call back. On occasions when I give it a thought, I wonder if we are being led somewhere we really don’t want to go, and do we even realise that we are the ones holding the stick with the carrot dangling on the end. Our reliance on systems and technology will all end in tears, mark my words. As if anyone is likely to mark my words.