Everything is amazing and no one is happy
A friend shared this with me on Facebook. An interesting perspective on our high tech society. The perspective of our spoiled generation with technology.
Today, I sent emails that had responses within minutes.
Today, I participated in a group demonstration that connected us to a video stream of someone in a different city.
Today, I posted notes on Twitter that were shared with people all around the United States and over half of them I have never met.
Today, I worked on part of a grant on a Google Document shared with two people I have never met but we are all collaborating on the same page.
Without technology, I would have to rely on my own horrible handwriting. I would have to print various copies of it over and over, then use mail to send the writings to the people. I would then have to wait for their responses.
Without technology, the demo of video conferencing resources would never have happened.
Without technology, the idea of Twitter could only be associated with the idea of a billboard and random drive-by’s who see the message on their way to work.
Without technology, I would have drafts of a “work in progress” document and notecards pinned to it as we corrected the different drafts into one solid document. Again, using snail-mail to connect us.
I know I take these tools for granted daily. On Twitter, the Fail-Whale is frustrating to see when it shows that the system isn’t working. My phone has to reboot maybe once a week because it disconnects from the network. My computer runs slower than usual some days. The Internet slows to a crawl after lunch…
These slow-downs happen. But….we are still plugged in. We are still accomplishing amazing things!
And yes, we get frustrated in our jobs when we don’t see progress going as fast as we would like. But….we are doing amazing things. Day by day and day to day.
What amazing things are you doing day to day?
