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Signs That Technology Has Taken Over Your Life
- You have never sat through
an entire movie without having at least one device on your
body beep, ring, buzz or blip.
- You met your significant
other online.
- You IM the person who
occupies the cubicle next to yours.
- You think of the gadgets
in your office as "friends," but forget to send
your mother a birthday card.
- When you go into a computer
store, you eavesdrop on a salesperson talking with customers
-- and you butt in to correct him and spend the next twenty
minutes answering the customers' questions, while the salesperson
stands by silently, nodding his head.
- You know Bill Gates' e-mail
address, but you have to look up your own social security
number.
- You’ve replaced the "answering
machine" with "voice mail."
- You send electronic cards
instead of paper ones.
- You back up your data
every day.
- You clean up your computer
more often than you clean up your house.
- You think jokes about
being unable to program a VCR are stupid .
- On vacation, while everyone
else is flipping the pages of John Grisham’s latest novel
you’re reading a computer manual on your handheld device.
- You go to computer trade
shows and map out the path of the exhibit hall in advance.
But you cannot give someone directions to your house without
looking up the street names.
- You would rather get more
dots per inch than miles per gallon.
- You own a set of itty-bitty
screw-drivers and you actually know where they are.
- You rotate your screen
savers more frequently than your automobile tires.
- You have ended friendships
because of irreconcilably different opinions about which
is better – MACs or PCs.
- You email this message
to your friends over the net when you’d never get around
to showing it to them in person or reading it to them on
the phone. In fact, you have probably never met many of
these people face-to-face.
- You take 30 minutes to
convert this text document to HTML using vi
- You understand all the
jokes in this list. If so, then technology has taken over
your life. Take time to smell the roses or lie under a tree
and write a poem. Oh, and don't use the notepad on your
laptop.
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