[ClearCase_guy]

I think there is much to that. If we had flying cars today, and lunar colonies, and if intergalactic spaceships were on the the drawing board, then I might see technology as taking us somewhere good. But that isn't my world.

I'm a tech guy. It's how I make my living.

And so much of today's tech is facebook, twitter, and porn. Today's technology really ISN'T making our lives better.

I think we need to stop. Slow things down. And really ask ourselves if the Norman Rockwell vision is something we might want to get back to. Or is the Obamacare website really the future we've always dreamed about?

[knarf]

Thanx CCG ... a merry Christmas to you

[Maceman]

Today's technology really ISN'T making our lives better. I think we need to stop. Slow things down.

I'm doing some consulting work looking at what's happening in the payments industry (and, coincidentally, yesterday someone put 10 phony $30 transactions on my debit card, but I digress.)

The global technology-driven changes to the entire world of money is mind-boggling. We won't recognize the banking/retail/P2P/mobile payments space in the next five years. See Money 2020.

There is no way to slow down the global rush of technology in every aspect of our lives, for better or for worse.