Day 84 ~ Lifetime

When I was born, most people had black and white TVs and nobody drove with seat belts on. In fifth grade I was lucky to be introduced to a new programming language... BASIC. Soon after, my family bought the first computer, an Atari, which had just appeared in the market two years earlier. Half way through college, my telecommunications teacher said in the future we would all carry a cellular phone, which seemed unbelievable to most people. My last semester of college I studied in Germany and used a cool new thing to communicate with other classmates studying abroad: email. Also at that time the world saw the birth of the first web browser, accessible mostly by universities. That was half a life ago. Not much later, the future my professor predicted came into being, less than ten year after his forecast. Count fifteen more years and our phones do everything for us: they wake us up, keep our daily agendas, give us directions, take photographs, play music for us, pay our groceries. I have less than half a life left, and I wonder what lay in store. Whatever it is, I hope it doesn't dehumanize us. The many hours we spend on our phones have already.