If you live in the modern world, as I’m sure you do, you’re probably very familiar with the common occurrence of witnessing two people standing next to each other in public space somewhere enraptured by their text conversations happening on their mobile devices, while being divided and oblivious to each other or anything else happening around them.
Does that current common occurrence make you reminisce about the good old days of landlines? You are not alone. Many people pine for simplicity in the crazy new world of immediate contact possibilities, made possible by our nifty mobile office gadgets. You can never be out of reach, never out of touch, and yet, simultaneously, you can be constantly isolated in your own mobile, virtual world of e-communication, while not being engaged in real time interaction with live people around you.
We live in wild times. How does this new technology of immediate mobile contact influence and affect our relationships with real people, in real time, in real life?
Well, there are benefits and drawbacks, as you might expect. As usual, the Two Guys on Your Head have some interesting insight.
