This is Day 6 of my life without my Laptop.
I am still on the computer at work. My job is computer based and a computer is the main tool that I use to do my job. I am speaking regarding my personal home laptop and computer.
6 days ago the laptop failed due to a dying hard drive. I tried to change out the hard drive and the procedure failed. And it is from this failure that my freedom to have an active life with connection to a larger world.
I now read books and listen to music in my front room office. I am walking each day. I took a walk with my wife and we walked to a place to have dinner together and then a long walk back. Mind and body are becoming active again,
Computers are addictive and demanding. This tool that was meant to help people, a Human Augmentation Device, is itself a device that pulls a person's interest in so tightly that an addiction, perhaps of Narcissism, develops. I and others lose our life to our time in front of the monitor.
Is it the call of something that seems important or is it plain Narcissism?
I see that I will need to get a CPU again for writing and financial accounting. I am going to wait until the last moment to fix or purchase a new laptop. I want a life and life is possible without a computer.
I enjoy the larger world that my freedom and separation from computers outside of work has been given me.
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