Not sure about you but I’ve noticed an increasing amount of posts on LinkedIn with video clips showing us up and coming technology advances with all sorts of supposedly break-through technologies, machines, robots, rockets and other machines, stuff!
Now, I’ve been a technology fanboy for many decades a tiny futurist hoping for the world to become a better place with technology.
I was a huge fan of a British TV series, Tomorrow’s World. Many of the technology ideas presented and showcased there very rarely became reality but some did.
I worked without computers for many years, we wrote on pads, delivered hand-written memos to pigeon holes, which got lost when the recipient said they never got it (I always suspected it was in their in-tray somewhere, buried underneath all the other papers), delivered hand written pieces of paper to the telex-room or if they had to see an exact copy of the document stood next to the upright fax machine (the size of a medium size printer) for 20 minutes whilst the phone gurgled.
I was amazed and excited when I saw the first lotus notes spreadsheet, it was the biggest technology breakthrough for me who had been writing figures on graph paper for years.
My only worry is that it keeps us in a place of wanting more technology advancement all the time and when we see something new, we go oh look that would be great and our mind goes longing for that thing, the new stuff to replace the stuff we thought was cool just a few hours ago.
Of course technology is great and the futurists in Davos in January 2018 were even suggesting that because of technology we will eliminate cardiovascular disease, cancer and diabetes, hospitals will disappear with the exception of emergency rooms and living until 120 will be common place.
Life will pass us by if we don’t stay in the moment and be grateful for what we have in this moment.
Stay in the moment!