The effing Ipad!

This recent discussion in class about the ipad literally was the straw that broke the camels back. Prof Prichard talked about this constant technological conversion that we see occurring in this world, and to be honest its absurd. When will it end. If we now have this awkwardly big piece of technology that people are carrying around so that they don’t have to carry a phone ipod and lap top, where does it end in terms of what we as people consider lazy.

This reminds me of Ellen Degeneres stand up, where she says the way that our society has evolved is just crazy. We have become so lazy in this world. She talks about how we no longer want to suck on tick tacks, but now have breath mint strips that simply dissolve on our tongue for us. Are we serious? I must say it all sounds better coming from the true source so:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HufW01FRheg

We don’t even realize how lazy society has become because its all that we know today, but for those of us left (not consumed by this infection of technology) its easy to see that there are of course easier ways to make things possible but do we really want this for ourselves. I feel I have exhausted this topic really, but it continues to come up and drive me crazy. I feel I am the only person in this world today who does not have an ipod. I know that if I jumped on the bandwagon I could easily fall in to the trap of not knowing what a CD is anymore, but why should we. What was so hard about changing a CD to begin with if you wanted to listen to a different artist.

This Ipad we see coming out is just a new way to combine more things together so we become even more obsessed with an object with a screen. Here is a story to show the problems these “ipads” and “iphones” are having on us as humans!:

I went to the bar with friends, and I look to my right, instead of our friend conversing with us in this social atmosphere, he is fishing on his iphone!! I said “holy shit! If you want to go fishing go fishing! He said, “Why go fishing in the cold when I can do it from a bar?”

This illustrates the problems that are evolving. We soon are going to be an obese lazy society who no longer knows how to do anything hands on because instead of real interaction in life we have these stupid iphones and ipads to do them for us! Where does it end!