Digital Nation Part 1

Watching the first half of Digital Nation got me thinking. We have so quickly forgotten how much we've lost touch with real life. We are all guilty of taking advantage of the truly amazing technologies we have at our fingertips. One of the first women interviewed in the movie mentioned how on her honeymoon, she and her husband were completely cut off. They didn't know what was going on in the world until they got home. This is unheard of now.

As much as I find it convenient to always be 'connected' and reachable, there's a part of me that wishes this wasn't the norm. We have lost our privacy in a sense. Between Twitter updates, away messages, mass texts and Facebook fan pages, anyone in the world can know where you are, what you're doing, who you're with, even where you go to college and what you're studying. Our obsession with technology is truly frightening.

I think the next topic Digital Nation will focus on is the virtual world. People are spending so much time on computers that they have created virtual lives. Even video games are a way for people to escape real life. With the next generation spending so much time playing war-like games where you get killed and then come back to life, what kind of person is this going to create? Children are growing up having a false sense of reality. What does this mean for our country's future leaders? I'm definitely looking forward to the rest of Digital Nation.