I can’t help but notice nowadays that despite our best efforts in North America to come across as technologically-advanced, all these advances do is allow us to be incredibly lazy and de-socialized.

Texting and Facebooking has made the telephone a thing of the past. Why talk to someone when we can just write to them? Apparently we’ve regressed to the medieval era. Where’s my horseback messenger when you need him?  

I’ve realized that all these great advances in technology appear to save us all a lot of time, but what they really do is allow our employers to expect more out of us. If it used to take us two hours to do a task and now it takes one because of technology, we’re asked to do more in those two hours.

An increased workload leads us to do things like get fast food because we’re in a hurry to get home so we can finish up the work we weren’t able to finish at work.

In what seems like a great time-saver, grocery stores offer a self-checkout lane where we can avoid the agony that comes from talking to a cashier and bag our own damn groceries. What possible mistake did cashiers from across North America do to become obsolete?

Now we can also rent movies online and have them delivered to our house. Which is great, because in between our cheeseburger-induced high cholesterol and stress-related ulcer, we can sit back and enjoy a movie without talking to another human being.

Thank you technology!