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What a blast!
Technology...I've always been reluctant to accept it. The relationship I have with electronic gadgets is filled with fear, despise, anguish and admiration. I hate dependences of all sorts but am, more and more, dependent to my computer.
I only got a computer and hooked up to internet - cable - phone service last October, because I was going back to school and needed the net connection for it. If people wanted to join me before that, they could either write, come knocking on my door or try my cell (rarely worked though). I'd call my mom and a few of my friends from work every week or so, so they'd know I was alive, and even now, I rarely answer my phone (I can talk a lot on the phone, but only when I'm in the mood, otherwise I hate it) but I check my mails 10 times a day.
I've had a few cell phones but almost every one of them got shut down for lack of use, and the only reason I have one now is because it's a loadable with prepaid cards one.
What I find distressing is that I know I would struggle if something happened to my computer, I'm dependent of it now. As for being more or less intelligent: I think I know now about many more things, but what I knew and learned before I learned fully, I didn't just scratch the surface as I do now. And the shorting attention span is getting a big (huge) issue too. But could I cut the internet use now?
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