Our Startrek reality.

Are we in an age where we can live with other human beings failing us rather than having our technology fail us. I feel I can cope with a friend not being able to keep her promise than me not being able to get through the phone line to talk to my mum. How inhuman is such a revelation. I am surprised at my dependence on technology. I have in a very private way always been proud at being empathetic to people around. But if this empathy sort of stems from my high expectation on technology instead, I think that is a backward move.

I don’t know if I am one of the few or we as a society are moving towards a bubble where we better prepare ourselves for the uncertainties of human moods and behaviours rather than accept that the technology we have come to rely on as a way of life will fail us unexpectedly. Why is it such a big deal in the day if the international phone lines seem to be jammed or the internet down for a couple of mins?

I remember when computers and mobile phones was just about getting popular no one minded that they failed to deliver all the time. People however took other people seriously and relied on ‘keeping a word’ and those things were such a big deal.

Why don’t we regard human relations as much now, just coz we have some fancy looking mobile phone or a 8Mbps internet connection?