Inconsistency is Good for You
Technology has offered us new emotions; has surfing helped us to hold on to the old ones?
The current technological superboom has completely changed the way in which we think, plan, act and react. So much occurs now in such real-time that a new standard of value has been achieved, ramping up our expectations that anything we want must be given to us at this very moment, and that anything that we want to do must happen at a moment’s notice. Technophobic pundits have posited that this superboom has had the consequence of giving us "new emotions" -- such as the worried feeling we get if the recipient of a text message does not immediately answer a sent text, or the strange new feeling of receiving a letter in the mail and wondering how this person could have gotten our address, and the shifty-eyed paranoia that immediately follows…
