Our names are CyBones, Cyber Lazybones

Technology Era is coming. After the industrial revolution, we relied more on machines, technologies and even computers. We are all addicts on text messages, smartphones, social networks etc. Technologies are sometimes as an extension of our certain abilities, i.e. new affordances, but it can let us lost the primary abilities too. For the origin of technology, we invent to alter a better life, bringing an improvement of human being. For the past few years, it seems that we are being reversely controlled by technologies.

For any new items, we can justify if it can change our life, resolving the existing problems. For example, mobile phones allow us to communicate with others almost instantly, instead of a delayed communication of letters or telegraphs. Computers helped us to do more tasks that may be time consuming in paper based history. These technologies actually do the good for us.

However, when this technology developed to be too powerful, that it has been beyond our need in actual life, it will become a tool that discharging our lazy mind, because of the deep reliance on a particular item. Yet we use mobile phones everyday for communication. But what do we use phones for? Text messages, cameras, music players, web browsers etc. Those functions has come beyond our origin of verbal communicating with others. Phones are no longer our tools for contact, but a tool for recreation. We have an extension of our speech through phones, but it gradually restrainted our ability for face-to-face communication.

No doubt computer helped us to do much "Mission Impossible" tasks, and also the possibles. But our abiltiy of writing had been handicapped by using too much keyboards. We now do not consider computer as a tool, but more relying on it as part of our body. Are we controlling computer commands, or the technology giving commands to us?

Science fictions always indicated human being overtaken by machines, because of the reliance. But I believe that our mind are superior than the mindless machines. We should rethink our role in this technology age, and know how to handle computers as our assistants, but not our "Masters"