Online

There has been a lot of chatter at work lately about technology.I'm a fan. If I reflect on my personal usage, I spend a lot of leisure time on blogs (including this one!), shopping online. When I look for information, I go online. I am on facebook, email, have an RSS account. I see how technology can engage, I've read literature which tells me that 95% of all human information is now digital (yes that means only 5% is in paper- or analogue-form), blogs that explain that we are in a different world, where consumers are publishers, there are no bourndaries to the sharing of information. the increase of information available, of web published material, is exponential. It is the future, it is the now...
But...

The issue I have is about balance. Too many tech keen practitioners are all or nothing- you go for this 100% or you are a dinosaur. There may be some truth in that. But if our lives become so involved in a digital reality we need to make a clear statement that we will certainly lose something. We will lose the essence of breath, we will lose intimacy, real connectiveness, with each other, with the earth. That has to be part of the equation. It's not a one or the other situation- it is about respecting each aspect.

When I am an old man and my children have grown up, I can not begin to think of the world we will live in. The jobs they will have, the way technology will be used, embeded into our lives. What I hope is that the appreciation of a sunset, a walk in the forest, the smell after rainfall, a cold swim, a coffee with friends, will still be here, Still be important.

There are some things that make us human that you can't put online.