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Oh great. I’ve got one of those hippie freak professors who teaches an intricate, upper level MIS class, but secretly loathes our society’s dependence on its gadgets. For three hours last night he lectured, and the whole thing was laced with these jabs at us for clinging so desperately to our devices. About an hour into it, he posed a challenge—he wanted us all to be stripped of all technology until Saturday morning.

I reached for my laptop and phone, and hugged them tightly to my chest. From my cold, dead fingers…

I know that some of you are thinking, “I could do it. I could just go camping for four days, and have no need for technology.” WHATEVER. Your car is one big piece of technology, they are all computerized under the hood and many are equipped with GPS navigation. Yeah, you can’t use either of those things. No cell phones, no computers, no video games, DVDs, iPods, ATMs, nothing. Look at the world around us. For those of us who engage daily in the use of heavy technology, I would have to think it would be virtually impossible for us to be without it. A few hours without a laptop, my OCD sends me into overdrive, and I just start panicking. Sick. Twisted. Addiction. I almost go through the DTs without my precious stuff. The minimum I can sustain on is my phone.

Have we all become so dependent on technology that many of us remember quite clearly what it was like to be without? I mean, at this point, I’m practically almost a Borg. Do you think it is better or worse for society?