The Future is Coming

So the human race is creating things at a new rapid pace. It seems like we are quickly reaching the "future."
From hand held face to face communication, to robots with "emotions," we are creating it all.
And now just recently we've created the car that can drive itself!

http://news.yahoo.com/video/world-15749633/driverless-vans-end-long-drive-in-shanghai-22681340


I like a lot of the new technology that humans have been creating, I'll admit it's a lot of fun. But if you really sit down and think about what it is doing to life as we once knew it, everything is getting a little scary. At least for me it is.
The family dinner table in many homes isn't a place to sit down and just be with the family. Generally the children have about 4 or 5 other friends at the table with them, through their phones. Texting, IMing, and skyping has taken over the way to communicate and in many ways it's made life easier to stay in touch. But what about staying in touch with the people right in front of you. It's hard for people to stay focused on one person, the actual person who is sitting and having a conversation with them, especially when three other people are texting that person.
It's like we have to be in 3 different places at once. We have to stay in touch with everyone 24/7 and that's really hard to do!

Technology is a blessing and a curse. That's all to be said. It helps and it hinders. And we all have to know how to use it correctly, or it can just become a nuisance to us, and the people around us.