My bottom line, in regard to removing live people from the transactions among people is--I hate it. It takes jobs from people, many low on the totem pole anyway and unable to find another job. I hate it--I like talking with people in restaurants, cafes, markets, drugstores, libraries, utility companies, banks, and passing in the street.
I feel human and connected to humanity when I have chatted with or received or given information to another human on the planet.
Yes I use email, and I like it. I search the web, and I enjoy it. I buy books online, but only because the bookstores--with clerks who were like me and interested in books et al.--are disappearing. Chicken and egg, no contest. If we/I hadn't bought in, would it have gone this far. Pandora's Box comes to mind. I have only myself to blame, comes to mind.
I hate it when I see more self serve lines opening in the supermarket. I hate dealing on the phone with a company whose only respond team is electronic. "For anything, push a number."
I am a hypocrite. Would I give up the electronic conveniences that I use if it could all go back to dial tone phones and snail mail letters. I have given this some thought. Would I sacrifice Skype, the only mouth to ear connection I have with my grown children now.
Ah, there's the rub. I don't know.
and that's when I, and most people, I suspect, throw up their hands and blame big corporations or big government for the current way of life. I or we say, well I have no control over it and move on.
But I used it. I use it. Sometimes I benefit from it, sometimes not.
I do fear and dread the time when all the live help people are gone. A world without librarians would be much worse than a world without politicians, much worse than a world without armies.
Maybe it all evens out. More likely, we are on our way into extinction. I could go on, but I won't. I'll think about this tomorrow. Tomorrow is another day.
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PS: I just cancelled my tv/cable connection and sold my TV. Poof!
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