Do you remember those carefree days when you were young, and went fishing with Billy and Sally down at the water hole? Well chances are if you’re under the age of 50, you don’t. The days of malt shops and Andy Griffith lifestyles are over. Technology, the wave of the future, is upon us.

Everywhere you go you see people talking on cell phones, booting up laptops, or trying to figure out how to used their palm pilots. Mega-bytes, modems, and telephone cords are all around us. You don’t need to see people much anymore. You can send emails, instant messages, or a quick cell phone call on your way to work. No real effort is given to anything anymore. If you don’t like to write someone, you can always copy & paste, right?

Parents don’t even have to watch their kids anymore. They can observe them over these new “online daycare” cameras. This fact, among others, voices the question, what kind of world do we live in?

A world where people buy everything online, do everything online, spend hours sitting in front of their computers not getting any exercise or actual human contact.

Young women, ones who fall under the false promises of somebody they met online, get hurt or even killed everyday. The movie “You’ve Got Mail” could have easily been made into a horror flick with just a few story line changes.

What will happen to the human civilization years from now? Will we even need to see each other anymore? Or leave the house? Today I call to your attention that, technology, this wave of the future, may as well be drowning us.