Digital Detox Week.

Well I really dropped the ball this week, I just found out that this is 'Digital Detox Week'. A week of laying aside technology and going back to a much simpler time, a time when we as a people sat and read more, talked to our fellow humans, and a time when technology did not rule our lives! Right, as if that will take off. I can see were some people think that technology is controlling our lives more and more and that we run the risk of having computers take over the planet. Personally that is hogwash. Computers and robots will never ever rule over humanity. Why? Computers cannot build themselves and they require power, cutoff the power and they die! Plus computers don't have the intelligence that humans have they cannot reason, in other words they cannot solve problems on their own, all they can do is spit out responses to what has been inputted into them. Anyway during the past digital detox weeks some have flipped out, take the 16yr old boy who killed his parents because they took away his Xbox 360. This kid had been playing Halo3 for 18 hours a day and they felt that was too much time spent gaming, I would have to agree with them, so he took a gun went into their bedroom and said he had a surprise for them and then shot them in the head. This kid got life in prison, later commuted to 23 yrs to life. Sure some can make an argument for needing a digital detox week but in reality it doesn't do a darn thing. We need technology like we need food and water. Do you really want to go back to the way things used to be? I know I don't want to go backwards, we have progressed and technology has come along for the ride with us. We need technology.