We are spending too much time in front of the computer

We are a generation that boast the fact that we are very much IT litterate compared to the previous generation. Certainly he never touches a computer and I dont think he ever will. We on the other hand are innundated with everything IT, from our laptops even now to our handphone and coming to our satellite navigation (Sat Nav - for short). These gadgets to a certain extend are controlling our lives, in a sense, we feel handicapped if we dont have these devices around, we feel lost - disconnected from the world, even for one day without 'playing' with them.



The question is: is that what we are looking for, in this generation?



Are we becoming an IT society that is building something useful/meaningful or are we becoming a society that are becoming flooded with killer application that we get distracted with whatever that we wanted to do in the first place? It is very easy to sit in front of the screen for hours on end just surfing, but is that beneficial? Does that act in any way, shape or form makes us a better person?

Yes, many great teachings have mentioned that we should value time, and time is the only entity in the world that is irreplaceable. We should dictate for our own destiny how we should spend every second of our lives but more and more, it seems that these technologies are running us in circle, enveloping us with its blanket of security, bombarding us with information, that at the end of the day, you felt fatigue, not by actual work, but by moving through these maze of applications to get to what you wanted to do..

I believe therefore we should read books more then..