Technology has solved many problems throughout history. Many technological advances were made because of someone’s desire to make life easier. Today technology is in our faces everywhere we go. Technology has spread from the office to the home office, to the living room and our cars.

For some people, this is a dream continually coming true. For others, technology glitters a little less brightly.

Many people in America today work too much, sleep too little, play too rarely, and are massively over-committed. For a lot of these people, using technology can be like having another job. For all their attempts to join the 21st century, they’re rewarded with a computer that ages faster than they thought possible, viruses that spread just by reading an email, spyware that their kids installed while pirating music, and a myriad of devices that they once thought would make their lives easier, but have only served to reinforce their idea that all this technology is more trouble than it’s worth.

In some way, people like me have been the problem. I’m a geek. I’m like a raccoon drawn to anything shiny. If it has a screen, some buttons, and somewhere to plug in a cable, I’ll spend an hour just figuring out what it can’t do. People like me have often preached the gospel of tech simply on the basis that it’s just awesome. In some way we’ve succeeded. The entire country seems to be obsessed with tech even if only to keep up with what’s perceived to be “normal”.

For those who have felt left out of the technological revolution, for those who can’t avoid tech, but wish they could, and for those who are burned out on the tech-because-it’s-awsome adrenaline rush, I offer a perspective that hopefully will be refreshing, and educational.

I believe that the result of a person interacting with technology should be more life. Peace, Joy, Happiness. The elements of life that most people wish they had more of. I’m fully aware of how technology has robbed some people of those things, and the purpose of this blog is to show people how technology can allow them to experience life in a more peaceful, happy, joyful way.

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