As I sit here at my desk, I find myself surrounded by a variety of USB cables and electronic devices. The cables await my Kindle and my iphone and my Blackberry. They will charge next to my internet modem and my wireless router, which in turn sit next to my external hard drive, my Skype phone and my PC. My computer monitor, keyboard and speakers and my office phone are present and accounted for, as are three remote controls for various devices. Nearby are my color laser printer and three in one fax/scanner/printer.
Wow!! All of these devices just to service me. I can be reached anywhere on my cell or via e-mail and I can reach virtually anywhere in the world via the internet or my other devices. Technology has made me global.
On the other hand, it leaves me no place to hide out. Clients and vendors expect me to be available round the clock. Responses to requests are expected to be immediate. There is no breathing time, no time for thought.
So, I have access to everything almost all of the time, but the opposite is true as well.
Everyone needs a safe haven, an escape from the everyday pressures and stresses. Sometimes that even means putting down the ipod and listening to the sounds of nature or the sound of silence.
There is certainly a place for technology in life. And there needs to be a place without it too.
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