We are closely linked to technology in everyday life. Since we wake up in the morning with the alarm ringing from our cell phone or alarm clock, we are "connected" to microcomputers which will be present during our day. The microwave to heat breakfast, the morning news on TV, your GPS in the car, the ticket validating machine, a security camera screen in the bus, among others. We are surrounded!
We could say that life gets easier, but sometimes less human.
My husband does car pool to go to the office with a coworker. She is a woman who lived over 10 years in Afghanistan, helping people. Among the things she has taken(no entiendo... “entre las cosas que ella ha sacado”), is getting used to life with machines. She feels that, with technology, there is a huge loss in relationships with others. For example, before she met with other women at an Afghanistan river to wash their clothes. It was a social institution. All they did, besides of washing, was to talk about their problems or just share moments of happiness, sadness or privacy. Today, here, this institution has turned into pressing the power button of herwashing machine. Just that, a mechanical fact with no further rewards tan getting the clothes clean.
The experience of living in a country affected by war and less developed than Australia, marked her deeply. Things like washing clothes may be meaningless for us, but for others, they can be an important part of their daily life.
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