I recently led a workshop focused on helping us develop a wiser relationship to our technology (Smartphones, IPads, computers, television, etc.). In the beginning of the workshop I explained how as much as we feel that technology is a part of our lives, historically, we’re really just becoming acquainted with it. We talked about how in many ways, the people who came to the group were like “Digital Warriors,” at the frontier of optimizing this new wiser relationship to technology.
Here are a five benefits we found and one thing that surprised me most about what would come in life we practiced more digital awareness.
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For me awareness and digital technology is about learning to think consciously about cost/benefit with the big picture & long term in mind. It seems to me most popular modern technology gets it’s power from the fact that we UNCONSCIOUSLY it SEEMS great in terms of cost/benefit. For almost no cost, no physical effort at all a computer, TV or car makes a huge “benefit”: that is it greatly changes what we experience/ perceive, so it makes us FEEL powerful and in control, but in reality the opposite may be the case.
Am I really making things better chatting about protecting the environment online (seems to make a huge change for zero effort) or is it wiser to work in the garden(SEEMS like a lot of work compared to the “benefit” (change it makes) but I’d say the benefit is really greater). Am I really more powerful driving into town or walking? Unconsciously I FEEL much more powerful driving but that’s an illusion if it’s making me fat, in debt etc.
Cheers
I think an important point is made connection vs intimacy. I am always amazed observing people in restaurants. Many times you will see a family and all the kids, and sometimes even adults will have some electronic gizmo they are interacting with, in lieu of interacting with the people sitting right in front of them! Relationships require effort beyond just sitting next to each other while each is doing something else. It is about what value is placed on quality,( actually being present in your current setting) or quantity, your 75 “best friends” on Facebook.