Let's ask ourselves an honest question and try to give an honest answer.
Have we increased only our level of knowledge or truly gained in wisdom?
My feeling is that we have not truly increased our level of wisdom.
Knowledge: Range of information. Wisdom: A wise attitude or course of action.
Remember that as children we learned to count with blocks, followed by counting on our hands, and then progressed to multiplication tables, logarithms, slide rules, calculators, and so on to computers.
Human history in computing ranges from the abacus to an iPhone.
The abacus is also called a counting frame. It is a calculating tool used primarily in Asia for performing arithmetic processes. Note that the abacus was in use centuries before the adoption of the written modern numeral system and is still widely used by merchants, traders and clerks in Asia, Africa, and other places. Surprised?
The iPhone 5 developed in the Western world is a touchscreen-based smart phone developed by Apple Inc.. It is the sixth generation of the iPhone. It is amazing how much you can do with it. But there is also a limit to what you can do with it.
Recent studies have shown that multitasking in not as effective as claimed to be. If anything, it can be counterproductive. Along the same lines, if we can push back the invasion of tech gadgets (from smart phones to computers) in our daily lives during certain periods of the day, our effectiveness has proven to increase.
Think about it! It may be wise to do so. Time to put away our tech toys, including my getting away from this computer for a little while!
