Firstly this is not an attack of technology. Technology can do amazing things in seconds and help us find places when we are lost, find a restaurant, find a friend, on and on.
But I see more and more that people sit down to dinner in a restaurant and couples or groups aren't talking to each other. They are mesmerized by their phones. Today it reminded me of the scene pictured above from the movie Batman Forever.
In the 1995 film Batman Forever, The Riddler played by Jim Carrey, sets up his own company and sells Nygmatech gadgets that beam TV images directly into the brain. Sort of virtual reality without the glasses.
It all sounds like fun and games until Batman discovers that Riddler is sucking the brains of Gotham dry to increase his own intelligence. In my opinion our smartphones and technology are sucking us dry.
How much time do you check your phone during the day? Once every hour, every ten minutes, every few seconds? What was that? Was that this sound of a text coming through? Oh no! I've got to stop and read it right now!
Why have we allowed technology to become our master? Because we have allowed it to happen.
"No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money." Matthew 6:24
In this verse God is speaking to money and its ease to make you slaves to it. But you can become a slave to anything. Are you allowing technology to rule you? Is your technology stopping you from spending quality time with your children, parents, friends or even taking some much needed downtime?
I have made a conscious effort to limit my time checking my phone. It will be there when I come back to it. Yours will too.
That's all for now... until next time.
