Technology Breakdown

As you all know because of last Friday’s poll, I have had quite the catastrophe with the technology that surrounds me.  It made me think. Are we a slave to the technology around us, or do we really control and utilize the resources.  I realized that when my technology (work laptop, Blackberry roller ball, personal computer hard drive, an HD video camcorder, and a gift card!)  went down so did my life.  I would like to think that I can function normally without these “luxuries” but in reality it was a scramble. It put everything else on hold to get them fixed.

I would like to hear if anyone truly believes that we are in control of the technology that surrounds our every day life, or we are bound to it by society/work/fun.  I got a call from my father yesterday during my lunch in the cafeteria at the McCormick convention hall, and it puzzled me.  He asked me how to get the text from a document onto a website site forum.  It was a simple task for copy and paste, but it seemed to escape his realm of knowledge.  I thought this was bizarre because he was a VP at Dow Chemical and a very astute businessman.  Is it possible today to make it to that level without the knowledge of technology we have grown up with?  Or is it a new day in the business world where us “Nerds” will ultimately use the technology we know and have to dominate the business world as we know it.  I want to know who thinks we are slaves, and who thinks we use our knowledge to dominate?